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Title:Silver bowl
Period:Early Cycladic I–II
Date:ca. 3200–2200 BCE
Culture:Cycladic
Medium:Silver
Dimensions:diameter 8 1/16 in. (20.4 cm)
Classification:Gold and Silver
Credit Line:Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Object Number:1972.118.152
Said to be from Euboea (von Bothmer 1961, p. 21, no. 96)
[Until 1937, with Jean Mikas, Athens and Paris]; [July 28, 1937, acquired by Joseph Brummer, purchased from J. Mikas]; [until October 1939, with Joseph Brummer, New York (P14029)]; October 9, 1939, acquired by Miss Mollie Newberry (niece of May Ida Case (1890-1946), first wife of Walter Cummings Baker), purchased from Joseph Brummer; collection of the Newberry family, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York; from before 1946 and until 1971, collection of Walter C. Baker, New York; acquired in 1972, bequest of W. C. Baker.
Segall, Berta and Benaki Museum. 1938. Katalog der Goldschmiede-Arbeiten. p. 212, Athens: Druckerei "Pyrsos".
von Bothmer, Dietrich and René d'Harnoncourt. 1950. Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities: An Exhibition from the Collection of Walter Cummings Baker, Esq. no. 99, p. 13, New York: Walter Cummings Baker.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1961. Ancient Art from New York Private Collections: Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 17, 1959–February 28, 1960. no. 96, p. 21, pl. 26, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Renfrew, Colin. 1967. "Cycladic Metallurgy and the Aegean Early Bronze Age." American Journal of Archaeology, 71(1): p. 6 n. 76.
Branigan, Keith. 1974. Aegean metalwork of the Early and Middle Bronze Age. catn. no. 3161, p. 195, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Thimme, Jürgen. 1976. Kunst und Kultur der Kykladeninseln im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Ausstellung unter d. Patronat des International Council of Museums ICOM im Karlsruher Schloss vom 25. Juni-10. Oktober 1976. no. 427, pp. 431–32, Karlsruhe: Müller.
Davis, Ellen. 1977. "The Vapheio Cups and Aegean Gold and Silver Ware. Ph.D. diss." Ph.D. Diss. no. 7. New York University.
Hood, Sinclair. 1978. The Arts in Prehistoric Greece. p. 153 n. 5, Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1979. Greek Art of the Aegean Islands. no. 21, pp. 63–64, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1984. "A Greek and Roman Treasury." Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 42(1): no. 1, pp. 6, 16
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Picón, Carlos A., Joan R. Mertens, and Ariel Herrmann. 1996. "Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 1995–1996." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 54(2):
Mertens, Joan R. 2002. "Cycladic Art in the Metropolitan Museum. Antecedents and Acquisitions." Silent Witnesses: Early Cycladic Art of the Third Millennium BC, Christos G. Doumas, ed. p. 15, fig. c, New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), Inc.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 10, pp. 35, 410, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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