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Oil Ampulla in the Form of a Dancing Bear

AD 200s

Italy, Roman, 3rd century

Bronze

Overall: 14.6 x 10.4 x 9.5 cm (5 3/4 x 4 1/8 x 3 3/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1972.102

Location

103 Roman

Provenance
c. 1967
Istanbul
DeClerq Collection
?-1972
(Mathias Komor, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1972-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
"États-Unis Acquisitions des Musées," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, No. 1249 (Feb. 1973) p. 105, no. 374
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1972." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 3 (1973): 63-115. p. 67 www.jstor.org
Kozloff, Arielle P. "A Bronze Menagerie." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 3 (1976): 75-88. pp. 84-86 www.jstor.org
"Recent Acquisitions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly XXXVI no. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 1976). p. 112 & 121
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 28 archive.org
Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Reproduced: p. 39; Mentioned: p. 39, p. 62
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 14 archive.org
Exhibition history

Echoes from Olympus: The Minot Arts of Classical Antiquity, University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (Aug. 15 - Dec. 15, 1974).

Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

Echoes from Olympus: Reflections of Divinity in Small-Scale Classical Art. University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (organizer) (August 15-December 15, 1974).

A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14-December 16, 1981).

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