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AN ATTIC MARBLE STELE FOR MEDEIA

Starting price
$ 400 000
Auction dateClassic
06.10.2022 10:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 820704
Lot 17 | AN ATTIC MARBLE STELE FOR MEDEIA
AN ATTIC MARBLE STELE FOR MEDEIA

CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 375-350 B.C.

25 7/8 in. (65.7 cm.) high





Provenance

with T. Zoumpoulakis, Athens.

with The Brummer Gallery, New York and Paris, acquired from the above 1923 (Inv. no. P801).

The Ernest Brummer Collection: Ancient Art, vol. II, Spink & Son and Galerie Koller, Zurich, 16-19 October 1979, lot 601.

with Robin Symes, London, acquired from the above.

Private Collection; Belgium, acquired from the above, 1979; thence by descent.

Property from a European Private Collection; Ancient Sculpture & Works of Art, Sotheby’s, London, 4 December 2018, lot 14.

Acquired by the current owner from the above.



Literature

C.W. Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones, vol. 1, Kilchberg, 1993, p. 308, no. 1.310.

J. Bergemann, Demos und Thanatos, Munich, 1997, p. 173, no. 574.

L. Jones Roccos, "Back-Mantle and Peplos: The Special Costume of Greek Maidens in 4th-Century Funerary and Votive Reliefs," Hesperia, vol. 69, no. 2, 2000, p. 255, no. 40.

H. Bectarte, "Le costume de l’épouse dans l’art funéraire attique de l’époque classique," in L. Bodiou et al., eds., Chemin faisant: Mythes, cultes et société en Grèce ancienne. Mélanges en l’honneur de Pierre Brulé, Rennes, 2009, pp. 237, 245, fig. 1.

K. Margariti, The Death of the Maiden in Classical Athens, Oxford, 2017, p. 390, no. E39.

K. Margariti, "Lament and Death Instead of Marriage: The Iconography of Deceased Maidens on Attic Grave Reliefs of the Classical Period," Hesperia, vol. 87, no. 1, 2018, p. 134, no. 25.
Medium:Marble, Stone
Historical era:Classical antiquity
Place of origin:Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe
Auction house category:Ancient Art & Antiquities
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