Lot 27
  • 27

An Attic Red-figured Pelike with Amazonomachy, attributed to Group G, circa 360-350 B.C

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • An Attic Red-figured Pelike with Amazonomachy, attributed to Group G
  • Pottery
  • Height 13 15/16 in. 35.5 cm.
with foot in several degrees, one side painted with an amazonomachy showing two fighting Amazons flanked by two Greek warriors, another Greek lying prostrate on the ground, each Amazon wielding a sword and carrying a shield, and wearing spotted leggings, tunic, and Phrygian cap, a tree in the background, the reverse painted with a youth holding a shield between two companions, one holding a strigil, a palmette at the base of each handle, an ovolo kymation above and below the scene and on the outside of the rim; the details in added white.

Provenance

Dr. Jacques Denier (1926-1992), La-Tour-du-Pin, Isère
Sothebys, New York, June 6th, 2006, no. 19, illus.

Condition

Part of rim broken off in 4 fragments and repaired, otherwise intact, wear to glaze severe at the back and moderate around the rim.
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Catalogue Note

Beazley (ARV, pp. 1464-1465) mentions several vases with amazonomachy attributed to Group G; those with recorded find-spots came from places as diverse as South Russia, Kerch in the Ukraine, Populonia in Tuscany, and Pella in Macedonia.