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Oil flask (aryballos)
Italic, Etruscan
Archaic Period
6th century B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Italy, Tuscany or Lazio
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Italo-Corinthian style
Dimensions
Height: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift in memory of Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule
Accession Number2001.175
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionTwo heraldic roosters enclose long-beaked bird with wings spread out on either side. Two smaller birds above its wings. Another perches on tail-feathers of left-hand rooster. Red overpaint for combs and wing feathers.
ProvenanceBy 1965, probably sold by Hesperia Art, Philadelphia, to Cornelius C. Vermeule III (b. 1925 - d. 2008) and Emily Townsend Vermeule (b. 1928 - d. 2001), Cambridge, MA [see note]; 2001, gift of Cornelius C. Vermeule to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 21, 2001)
NOTE: First lent to the MFA November 12, 1965 (loan no. 218.65).
NOTE: First lent to the MFA November 12, 1965 (loan no. 218.65).