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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA

Lot 18
09.04.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1175182
Lot 18 | AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE LEAGROS GROUP, CIRCA 520-500 B.C.

17 in. (43.1 cm.) high





Provenance

with Holger Termer, Hamburg, 1980 (Kunst der Antike, vol. 2, no. 5).

Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired by 1986; thence by descent to the current owner.



Literature

W. Hornbostel, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1986, pp. 58-59, no. 20.

J. Burow, Der Antimenesmaler, Mainz, 1989, p. 104, no. XIX.

M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 66-69, no. 12, pl. 7.

W.J. Slater and M. Steinhart, "Phineus as Monoposiast," Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 117, 1997, pp. 206-207, pl. 8A.

B. Scholz, "Die Tradition bürgerlicher Bremmer Antikensammler," in H. Kloft, ed., Bremen-Griechenland: Stationen und Aspekte einer Partnerschaft, Bremen, 2002, pp. 85-86.

E. Grabow, "Antike Bildergeschichten in Bremen: Einblick in Alltag und Glaubensvorstellungen der griechischen Antike gewährt die Sammlung Zimmermann in Bremens Kulturmeile," Antike Welt, vol. 40, no. 2, 2009, p. 81, fig. 3.

F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 64-65, 135, figs. 61, 134; p. 144, no. 8.

Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 5723.



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.
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