AN ATTIC WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS

Lot 42
09.04.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1175139
Lot 42 | AN ATTIC WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS
Estimate value
$ 7 000 – 9 000
AN ATTIC WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS

ATTRIBUTED TO THE CIRCLE OF THE WOMAN PAINTER, CIRCA 430-420 B.C.

12 ½ in. (31.7 cm.) high





Provenance

Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired by 1996; thence by descent to the current owner.



Literature

M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 144-146, no. 33.

E. Giudice, Il tymbos, la stele, la barca di Caronte: L'immaginario della morte sulle lekythoi funerarie a fondo bianco, Rome, 2015, pp. 139-140, fig. 15.

F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 119-120, fig. 117; p. 149, no. 66.

Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 21328.



Exhibited

Bremen, Antikenmuseum im Schnoor, 2005-2018.

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