ID 1175171
Lot 3 | AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED LEKANIS LID
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF LOUVRE F6, CIRCA 570-550 B.C.
11 in. (27.9 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Kunstwerke der Antike, Auktion 51, Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, 14-15 March 1975, lot 121.
Antiquities, Christie's, Geneva, 5 May 1979, lot 46.
Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired from the above; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
W. Hornbostel, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1986, p. 39, no. 3.
A. Lioutas, Attische schwarzfigurige Lekanai und Lekanides, Würzburg, 1987, p. 111, pl. 29.2.
M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 31-33, no. 3.
F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, p. 149, no. 67, fig. 150.
S. Böhm, Sphingen und Sirenen im archaischen Griechenland: Symbole der Ambivalenz in Bildszenen und Tierfriesen, Regensburg, 2020, pp. 38, 150, fig. 18.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database nos. 1414 and 44544.
Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions no. 3814a.
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, 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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