AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED EYE-CUP

Lot 114
03.07.2024 15:30UTC +01:00
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ID 1248424
Lot 114 | AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED EYE-CUP
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£ 6 000 – 8 000
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED EYE-CUP
ATTRIBUTED TO THE LEAFLESS GROUP, CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) diam. Excl. handles




Provenance

Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton (1790-1851), Castle Ashby; and thence by descent.
The Castle Ashby Vases; Christie's, London, 2 July 1980, lot 56.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 208.



Literature

D. von Bothmer, Amazons in Greek Art, Oxford, 1956, no. 57bis, pp. 227-228.
J. Boardman and M. Robertson (eds), Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain XV, Castle Ashby, Northampton, Oxford, 1979, p. 18, no. 47, pls. 28.4, 29.2 & 29.3.
P. Devambez and A. Kauffmann-Samaras, ”Amazones,” Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. I, 1981, p. 628, no. 657, pl. 511 a, b.
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