Descripción

Very good condition - Besitzvermerk von Gertraud Hornbostel auf Vorsatz / Ownership note by Gertraud Hornbostel on endpaper - The history of the collection ol the Joslyn Art Museum is relatively short: the museum received its first piece of ancient pottery in 1931, and most recently, in 1984, the Anthropology Division at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln permanently lent the Joslyn a group of South Italian vases. The majority ol the purposeful acquisition, which assured the diversity of the collection and saw the incorporation of the highest quality vases, took place under the aegis of a former Director of the Joslyn, Eugene Kingman, during the 1950s and 1960s. This fascicule presents all of the classical pottery in the permanent collection of the Joslyn, with the exception of two vases too poorly preserved to be clear in photographs. -- Five vases, including the Lincoln South Italian pieces, were formerly in the art collection of George W. Lininger of Omaha; the Lininger Collection was formed sometime in the late nineteenth century and was dispersed in the 1920s. A few of the Joslyn�s vases, noted in individual entries, were once a part of major European or American collections: for example, the Attic black-glaze skyphos, 1962.209, still retains the export seal of the Naples Bourbons. Members of the Omaha community donated nearly one-third of the collection. -- Because the Joslyn vases are largely unpublished, they have been overlooked by many scholars. Dietrich von Bothmer is an exception; as the first authority to study much of the collection, his contribution is evident throughout the text. The Joslyn�s debt to him cannot be exaggerated.