Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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Property from the Collection of Alan E. and Marianne Schwartz

An Attic Black-figured Belly Amphora, attributed to the manner of the Princeton Painter, circa 540-520 B.C.

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15,000 GBP

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Description

An Attic Black-figured Belly Amphora

attributed to the manner of the Princeton Painter, circa 540-520 B.C.


painted on both sides with a youth on horseback flanked by two draped men with spears, a swooping eagle in the field, rays above the foot, linked lotus buds above each scene.

Height 35 cm.

André Emmerich Gallery, New York, in cooperation with Münzen und Medaillen, Basel

Alan and Marianne Schwartz, Michigan, acquired from the above on May 25th, 1964

then by descent to the present owner


Published

Masterpieces of Greek Vase Painting, catalogue of the exhibition at the André Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1964, no. 10, cover illus.

John D. Beazley, Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1971, p. 131, no. 5

Detroit Collects: Antiquities, checklist of the exhibition at the Detroit Museum of Arts, 1973, cover illus.


Exhibited

André Emmerich Gallery, New York, "Masterpieces of Greek Vase Painting," April 22nd-May 30th, 1964

Detroit Museum of Arts, Michigan, "Detroit Collects: Antiquities," March 14th-April 29th, 1973

The Princeton painter, active from circa 540-520 B.C., is named after an amphora of Panathenaic shape now in the Princeton University Art Museum (object y169): https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/19129. He predominantly worked on hydriai and amphorae with mythological subjects, and showed a certain skill in the depiction of horses.

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