ID 888451 
Lot 67  | AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000 
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PRINCETON PAINTER, CIRCA 540-520 B.C.
17 1/2 in. (44.4 cm.)
Provenance
Berndt Ahlström (1936-2019), New York, acquired in 1967.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York, acquired from the above, 1984.
Private Collection, London, acquired from the above, 1992.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 7 December 2011, lot 92.
Art Market, New York, acquired from the above.
Auktion 8, Cahn Auktionen AG, Basel, 9 November 2013, lot 139.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York.
Acquired by the current owners from the above, 2014.
Literature
J.R. Guy, "A Mystery of Attribution," Ackland Quarterly, no. 31, Winter 1991-1992, p. 3, fig. 5.
Imagining the Trojan War: A Gallery Guide Compiled by the Senior Colloquium in Classics, Williamstown, 2015, pp. 16-19.
G. Jurriaans-Helle, Composition in Athenian black-figure vase-painting: The 'Chariot in profile’ type scene (PhD. diss., Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2017), p. 138, n. 153; pp. 424-425, tb. 12, no. CH 26.
Exhibited
Williamstown, Williams College Museum of Art, Imagining the Trojan War, 30 May-13 December 2015.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017-2022 (Loan no. L.2017.22.2).
| Medium: | Ceramic | 
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| Art style: | Ancient Art | 
| Historical era: | Archaic Period | 
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe | 
| Category: | Amphora | 
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities | 
| Medium: | Ceramic | 
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| Art style: | Ancient Art | 
| Historical era: | Archaic Period | 
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe | 
| Category: | Amphora | 
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities | 
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