ID 1175142 
Lot 2  | AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED TYRRHENIAN NECK-AMPHORA
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 90 000 
ATTRIBUTED TO THE FALLOW DEER PAINTER, CIRCA 550 B.C.
15 in. (38 cm.) high
Provenance
J.L. Theodor, Brussels, acquired by 1992.
The J.L. Theodor Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1998, lot 65.
Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired from the above; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
J.L. Kluiver, "The 'Tyrrhenian' Group: Its Origin and the Neck-amphorae in The Netherlands and Belgium," Bulletin Antieke Beschaving: Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology, vol. 67, 1992, pp. 88-89, no 10; figs. 38-47, 66.
P. Heesen, The J.L. Theodor Collection of Attic Black-Figure Vases, Amsterdam, 1996, pp. 42-45, no. 1, pl. 1.
P. Heesen, "Catalogus," in S.B.M. van der Noordaa-Dominicus van den Bussche, et al., eds., De Collectie J.L. Theodor (Vereniging van Vrienden Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, vols. 66-67, November 1996), p. 15, no. 1, pl. III.
J.N. Bremmer, "Monsters en fabeldieren in de Griekse cultuur," in S.B.M. van der Noordaa-Dominicus van den Bussche et al., eds., Fabelachtig! Griekse griezels en wonderdieren (Vereniging van Vrienden Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, vol. 68, April 1997), p. 22, fig. 25.
N. Dietrich, Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Berlin, 2010, pp. 314-315, fig. 247.
F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 23, 25, 74, figs. 15, 72; p. 143, no. 4.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 153.
Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions no. 2959d.
Exhibited
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 | 
| 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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