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Bucket (situla)

about 350–340 B.C.
Country of Origin, for CustomsItaly
Place of ManufactureApulia, Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsHeight (max.): 28.1 cm
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds by exchange from a Gift of Horace L. Mayer and Paul E. Manheim and the Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number1992.317
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy 1978: Los Angeles market, Summa Galleries inv. 71 (according to A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, vol. 1: Early and Middle Apulian [1978], p. 343, no. 35, pl. 111, 2-4); by 1990: with Atlantis Antiquities, 40 East 69th Street, New York and Hesperia Arts Auction, Ltd., 29 West 57th Street, New York; sold at Hesperia Arts Auction, Ltd., Park Lane Hotel, 36 Central Park South, New York, November 27, 1990, part 2, lot 35; by 1992: with Acanthus, 24 East 81st Street, New York 10028; purchased by MFA from Acanthus, June 24, 1992