ID 1175157
Lot 37 | AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF THE YALE LEKYTHOS, CIRCA 470-460 B.C.
16 ¼ in. (41.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Dr. Ernst Berger (1928-2006), Basel, acquired circa 1960s-1980s.
Kunstwerke der Antike, Auktion 5, Jean-David Cahn AG, Basel, 23 September 2005, lot 52.
Kunstwerke der Antike, Auktion 2, Cahn Auktionen, Basel, 21 September 2007, lot 302.
Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
J. Boardman, "Herakles," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Supplementum 1, Dusseldorf, 2009, pt. 1, p. 244, no. add.11; pt. 2, p. 126, no. add.11.
F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 26-27, fig. 18; p. 148, no. 61.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 9022288.
Digital LIMC Database no. 201103.
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: | Classical antiquity |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities, Vases and vessels |
| Medium: | Ceramic |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Classical antiquity |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities, Vases and vessels |
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