ID 1248382
Lot 96 | AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED KALPIS
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
ATTRIBUTED TO THE CHRISTIE PAINTER, CIRCA 440-420 B.C.
14 ½ in. (37 cm.) high
Provenance
Dr. Arnold Ruesch (1882-1929) collection, Zurich, Switzerland.
Swiss private collection, acquired in 1936 from the above; thence by descent.
Literature
Sammlung A. Ruesch, Zürich, Griechische, etruskische und römische Altertümer, Galerie Fischer, Luzern, 1936, no. 11.
J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 1963, p. 1049, no. 52.
H. Hinkel, Der Giessener Kelchkrater, Giessen, 1967, p. 151, no. 23 E, pl. 19 A-B.
S.B. Matheson, Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens, 1995, p. 376, no. CHR 55.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 213621.
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic |
| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic |
| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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