ID 1248362
Lot 95 | AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
ATTRIBUTED TO GROUP E, CIRCA 540 B.C.
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Swiss private collection, acquired prior to 1942; thence by descent.
Literature
M. Huggler, et al., Griechische und Römische Kunst, Bern, 1942, p. 24, no. 156.
H. Blösch, Antike Kunst in der Schweiz, Zürich, 1943, pp. 42-45 and 161-163, no. 7, pls 14-17.
R. Herbig, Ganymed: Heidelberger Beiträge zur antiken Kunstgeschichte, Heidelberg, 1949, p. 38, fig. 16.
B. Neutsch, 'Exekias. Ein Meister der griechischen Vasenmalerei' in Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, 15, 1949-1950, p. 51 and 56, fig 19.
P.A. Clement, 'Geryon and Others in Los Angeles', Hesperia, 24, 1955, p. 4, no. b.
J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 133, no. 5.
A. Johnston, Trademarks on Greek Vases, Guildford, 1979, p. 84, Type 25A, no. 2.
C. Reusser & M. Bürge (eds.), Exekias hat mich gemalt und getöpfert: Ausstellung in der Archäologischen Sammlung der Universität Zürich, 9.11.2018-31.3.2019, Zürich, 2018, pp.140-144, figs 84-89.
C. Reusser & M. Bürge (eds.), Exekias und seine Welt: Tagung an der Universität Zürich, .–2 March 2019, Züricher Archäologische Forschungen 8, Zürich, 2022, pl. 45.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 301039.
Exhibited
Bern, Kunsthalle, Griechische und römische Kunst, 12 June – 30 August 1942.
Zürich, Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Zürich, 9 November 2018 – 31 March 2019 (Zurich University collection, inv. L 1611).
Applied technique: | Pottery |
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Medium: | Ceramic |
Art style: | Ancient Art |
Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
Applied technique: | Pottery |
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Medium: | Ceramic |
Art style: | Ancient Art |
Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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