AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)

Lot 7
09.04.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 80 000
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ID 1175187
Lot 7 | AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)

ATTRIBUTED TO THE SWING PAINTER, CIRCA 530 B.C.

15 3⁄8 in. (39 cm.) high





Provenance

with Holger Termer, Hamburg, 1978 (Kunst der Antike, vol. 1, no. 27).

Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired by 1986; thence by descent to the current owner.



Literature

W. Hornbostel, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1986, p. 54-55, no. 17.

H.A. Shapiro, Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens, Mainz, 1989, p.38, pl. 19a.

M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 33-37, pl. 3.

E. Grabow, "Antike Bildergeschichten in Bremen: Einblick in Alltag und Glaubensvorstellungen der griechischen Antike gewährt die Sammlung Zimmermann in Bremens Kulturmeile," Antike Welt, vol. 40, no. 2, 2009, p. 83, fig. 7.

M. Philipp, et al., Dionysos: Rausch und Ektase, Munich, 2013, p. 138, no. 39.

F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 51, 58, figs. 45, 55; p. 143, no. 2.

Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 10081.



Exhibited

Hamburg, BATIG Foyer Esplanade; Kiel, Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein Girozentrale; Bremen, Übersee-Museum, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, 29 May 1986-18 January 1987.

Bremen, Antikenmuseum im Schnoor, 2005-2018.

Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Dionysos: Rausch und Ektase, 6 February-10 June 2014.

Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 2018-2023.
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