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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA

Lot 35
09.04.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1175170
Lot 35 | AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE NAUSICAA PAINTER, CIRCA 450 B.C.

19 in. (48.2 cm.) high





Provenance

Pizzati Collection, Florence, acquired prior to 1843.

Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton (1790-1851), Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire; thence by continuous descent to Spencer Douglas David Compton, 7th Marquess of Northampton (b. 1946), Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire.

The Castle Ashby Vases; Christie's, London, 2 July 1980, lot 38.

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



Literature

E. Gerhard, Auserlesene griechische Vasenbilder: Hauptsächlich etruskischen Fundorts, vol. 2, Berlin, 1843, pp. 179-180, pl. 144.

W. Fröhner, Catalogue of Objects of Greek Ceramic Art, London, 1888, pp. 51-52, no. 115.

S. Reinach, Répertoire des vases peints Grecs et Étrusques, vol. II, Paris, 1900, p. 75, nos. 6-7.

Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art, London, 1904, p. 111. no. H52, pl. 95.

J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums, Cambridge, 1918, p. 122, no. 3.

J.C. Hoppin, A Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases, vol. II, Cambridge, 1919, p. 212, no. 4.

J.D. Beazley, Attische Vasenmaler des rotfiguren Stils, Tübingen, 1925, p. 254, no. 1.

J.D. Beazley, "Notes on the Vases in Castle Ashby," Papers of the British School at Rome, vol. 11, 1929, pp. 22-24, no. 33, fig. 18.

H. Philippart, "Collections de céramique grecque en Angleterre," L'Antiquité Classique, vol. 4, fasc. 1, 1935, p. 214, pl. 28, no. 2.

J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1942, p. 384, no. 1.

J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, second edition, vol. 2, Oxford, 1963, p. 1107, no. 4(1).

F. Brommer, Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage, Marburg, 1973, p. 30, no. B2.

J. Boardman and M. Robertson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain, Castle Ashby, Northampton, Oxford, 1979, p. 26, no. 66, pl. 42.

W. Hornbostel, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1986, pp. 122-124, no. 58.

I. Krauskopf, "Gorgo, Gorgones," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. IV, Zurich and Munich, 1988, pt. 1, p. 304, no. 214; pt. 2, p. 176. no. 214.

K. Schefold and F. Jung, Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst, Munich, 1988, p. 105, fig. 127.

T.H. Carpenter, ed., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition, Oxford, 1989, p. 329, no. 1107.4.

J. Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period, New York, 1994, pp. 96-97, pl. 195.

J. Boardman, "Herakles," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. V, Zurich and Munich, 1990, pt. 1, p. 146, no. 3125; pt. 2, p. 138, no. 3125.

M. Pipili, "Iolaos," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. V, Zurich and Munich, 1990, pt. 1, p. 693.

M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus den Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 136-141, pl. 22.

B. Scholz, "Die Tradition bürgerlicher Bremmer Antikensammler," in H. Kloft, ed., Bremen-Griechenland: Stationen und Aspekte einer Partnerschaft, Bremen, 2002, pp. 88-89.

K. Kressirer, Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike: Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit, vol. II, Hamburg, 2016, pp. 182, 842, no. 270.

F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 63-64, fig. 60; p. 144, no. 10.

Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 214642.

Digital LIMC Database no. 22815.



Exhibited

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Objects of Greek Ceramic Art, 1888.

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art, 1904.

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.
Medium:Ceramic
Art style:Ancient Art
Historical era:Classical antiquity
Place of origin:Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe
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