Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
An Attic Black-figured Neck Amphora, circa 520-500 B.C.
Auction Closed
July 3, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
An Attic Black-figured Neck Amphora
circa 520-500 B.C.
with torus foot, echinus mouth, and triple handles (one restored), painted in front with the Judgment of Paris, the three goddesses standing at left, Athena helmeted and wearing the aegis, Hera holding a staff and Aphrodite gesturing to her face, Paris at right with a staff, and Hermes between them holding his caduceus, the back with a departing warrior between two draped youths, rays and linked lotus buds above the foot, palmettes in the handle zones, tongues on the shoulder, lotus-palmette chain on the neck, the details in added red and white.
Height 27.5 cm.
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), Saint-Nicolas-lez-Arras
French private collection, by descent from the above (Jacques-Philippe Ruellan, Vannes, April 4th, 2009, no. 30, illus.)
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
The poses of Hermes and Paris on the obverse of the present vase suggest the influence of the Antimenes Painter and his circle, whose treatments of this subject are numerous and survive predominantly on hydriai. Compare an amphora in Würzburg (Martin von Wagner Museum, no. L186; J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, 1956, p. 271, no. 77; J. Burow, Der Antimenesmaler, 1989, no. 95; BAPD 320088).
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