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Storage jar (amphora) with water birds
Greek
Late Geometric Period
about 700 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Thera
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Overall: 78.5 cm (30 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift in memory of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge
Accession Number61.386
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionGeometric decoration on front of neck and shoulder. Maeander and water birds on neck. Red and reddish brown on yellow slip.
ProvenanceBy 1906: with W. Talbot Ready; by 1907: purchased from W. Talbot Ready by Mrs. T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. (loaned to MFA as 15.14 and then as 7.15, returned in 1915); by 1957: T. Jefferson Coolidge Collection (loaned to MFA as 368.57); by 1961: Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Collection; gift of Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge to MFA as Gift in Memory of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, May 10, 1961