AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS

Lot 28
09.04.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 120 000
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ID 1175158
Lot 28 | AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS

ATTRIBUTED TO THE MANNER OF THE BERLIN PAINTER, CIRCA 480-470 B.C.

16 ¼ in. (41.3 cm.) high





Provenance

with Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, 1983 (Schweizerische Kunst-und Antiquitätenmesse, no. 99).

Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired from the above, 1983; thence by descent to the current owner.



Literature

W. Hornbostel, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1986, pp. 101-103, no. 47.

M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 103-106, no. 21, pl. 16.

E. Grabow, "Antike Bildergeschichten in Bremen: Einblick in Alltag und Glaubensvorstellungen der griechischen Antike gewährt die Sammlung Zimmermann in Bremens Kulturmeile," Antike Welt, vol. 40, no. 2, 2009, p. 82, fig. 5.

F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 132-133, fig. 132; p. 148, no. 58.

J.M. Padgett., ed., The Berlin Painter and His World, Princeton, 2017, p. 400, no. BNM11.

Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 16031.



Exhibited

Hamburg, BATIG Foyer Esplanade; Kiel, Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein Girozentrale; Bremen, Übersee-Museum, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, 29 May 1986-18 January 1987.

Bremen, Antikenmuseum im Schnoor, 2005-2018.

Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 2018-2023.
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