A Mycenaean Pottery Stirrup Jar

A Mycenaean Pottery Stirrup Jar

Circa 1400-1100 B.C.

Height 4 1/2 inches. Continental Decorative Arts
Possible overpainting/enhancement to some of the reddish brown bands (color comes off slightly when tested with acetone). Probable restoration to the spout with some minor overpainting.

Provenance:
Collection of Luigi Palma di Cesnola, first Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1868-1873.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1873-1916.
Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925), Toledo, gifted to the Toledo Museum of Art, 1916, accession no. 1916.115.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, 1916-2016.
Christie’s, New York, Storied Treasures: Antiquities from The Toledo Museum of Art, online, 19-26 October 2016, Lot 28.

Literature:
C.G. Boulter and K.T. Luckner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, The Toledo Museum of Art, Fasc. 2, Toledo, 1984, p. 1, pl. 61.3.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 9001869.