AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS

Lot 37
09.04.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 37 | AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS

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.
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