ID 1076527
Lot 3 | AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
NEAR GROUP E, CIRCA 560-540 B.C.
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, Lugano, acquired by 1974.
Kunstwerke der Antike, Auktion 1, H.A.C. Basel, 15 June 1998, lot 32.
Dr. M. Struder, Santa Maria in Calanca, Switzerland.
Kunstwerke der Antike, Auktion 3, Jean-David Cahn AG, Basel, 19 September 2008, lot 274.
Acquired by the current owner from the above.
Literature
H. Bloesch, et al., Das Tier in der Antike: 400 Werke ägyptischer, griechischer, etruskischer und römischer Kunst aus privatem und öffentlichen Besitz, Zurich, 1974, p. 38, no. 221, pl. 36,
J. Boardman, "Greek Art," in M. Merrony, ed., Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, pp. 59, 63, fig. 17.
M. Merrony, ed., Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins: Collection famille Levett, Mougins, 2012, p. 33.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 3733.
Exhibited
Universität Zürich, Archäologisches Institut, Das Tier in der Antike: 400 Werke ägyptischer, griechischer, etruskischer und römischer Kunst aus privatem und öffentlichen Besitz, 21 September-17 November 1974.
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA57).
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