ID 1175161
Lot 23 | AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED HYDRIA
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
ATTRIBUTED TO THE GROUP OF VATICAN 424, CIRCA 510-500 B.C.
20 1⁄8 in. (51.1 cm.) high
Provenance
with André Emmerich, New York.
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, New York, acquired from the above, 1966 (Inv. no. 66.8).
Property from The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art; Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 10 June 1994, lot 127.
Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired from the above; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 164, no. 9bis.
F. Brommer, Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage, Marburg, 1973, p. 42, no. 13.
D. von Bothmer, "The Struggle for the Tripod," in V. Höckmann and A. Krug, eds., Festschrift für Frank Brommer, Mainz, 1977, p. 57, no. 115.
F. Brommer, Herakles II: Die unkanonischen Taten des Helden, Darmstadt, 1984, p. 9, n. 65.
J. Boardman, "Herakles," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. V, pt. 1, 1994, p. 138, no. 3038.
M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 73-76, no. 14, pl. 8.
F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 72, 130, figs. 70, 129; p. 145, no. 23.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database nos. 20318 and 351197.
Digital LIMC Database no. 22669.
Exhibited
Utica, New York, The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, The Olympics in Art: An Exhibition of Works of Art Related to Olympic Sport, 13 January -2 March 1980.
Bremen, Antikenmuseum im Schnoor, 2005-2018.
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 2018-2023.
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Archaic Period |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities, Vases and vessels |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Archaic Period |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities, Vases and vessels |
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