Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
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Auction Closed
July 3, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
An Attic Black-figured Neck Amphora
attributed to the Manner of the Antimenes Painter, circa 530-510 B.C.
with torus foot, echinus mouth, and triple handles, painted in front with a warrior’s departure, the charioteer wearing a long chiton and carrying a goad, the departing hoplite with high-crested helmet of Corinthian type and brandishing a shield and spear, the crest overlapping with the tongues of the shoulder, his wife or mother standing with her hand raised in a gesture of mourning, an attendant sitting and holding a staff, and in front with the death of a warrior, the defeated on one knee and defending over his shoulder, his opponent advancing with spear raised, rays, linked lotus buds, and meander 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 37.5 cm.
Ernst Koennecke, Germany (Franz A. Menna, Bonn, October 4th, 1939, no. 171)
Professor Paul Luchtenberg (1890-1973), Germany, acquired at the above sale
Paul Luchtenberg Foundation (Hargesheimer, Düsseldorf, October 23rd, 2023, no. 85, illus., as modern)
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
For a hydria in Zürich (inv. no. 4547) attributed to the Antimenes Painter and with shoulder and body decoration closely related to the present amphora, see J. Burow, Der Antimenesmaler, 1989, no. 15, pl. 17; J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, 1956, p. 267, no. 13; BAPD 320023.
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