AN ATTIC OUTLINE WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS

Lot 34
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ID 1472697
Lot 34 | AN ATTIC OUTLINE WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
AN ATTIC OUTLINE WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE BOWDOIN PAINTER, CIRCA 480-470 B.C.
12 1/8 in. (30.7 cm.) high




Provenance

with N. Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris and Geneva.
Christos G. Bastis (1904-1999), New York, acquired from the above, 1948; thence by descent.
The Christos G. Bastis Collection, Sotheby’s, New York, 9 December 1999, lot 139.



Literature

G.M.A. Hanfmann, Ancient Art in American Private Collections, Cambridge, 1954, p. 36, no. 294, pl. LXXXIII.
D. von Bothmer, Ancient Art from New York Private Collections, New York, 1961, p. 60, no. 238, pls. 82, 87.
J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figured Vase-Painters, second edition, vol. 1, Oxford, 1963, p. 687; vol. II, p. 1665, no. 215.
J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figured Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figured Vase Painters, Oxford, 1971, p. 406.
D. von Bothmer, et al., Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis, Mainz am Rhein, 1987, p. 287, no. 169.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 208173.
Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions no. 5744.



Exhibited

Cambridge, Harvard University, The Fogg Art Museum, Ancient Art in American Private Collections, 28 Dec 1954-15 Feb 1955.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ancient Art from New York Private Collections, 17 December 1959-28 February 1960.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Antiquities from the Christos G. Bastis Collection, 20 November 1987-10 January 1988.
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