Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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Property from a Swiss Private Collection

An Etruscan Black-figured Amphora, attributed to the Workshop of the Micali Painter, late 6th/early 5th Century B.C.

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Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

with torus foot, double handles, and echinus mouth, painted on one side with Herakles running to left, wearing the lion skin, and wielding his club, and on the other side with a centaur galloping to right, holding palm leaves in one hand and an unidentified object in the other, palmettes in the handle zones, stylised linked inverted palmettes on the neck.


Height 37.5 cm.

Marchese Domenico Grossi (1849-1944), Camporsevoli

Marchese Roberto Grossi, Camporsevoli, by descent, prior to 1956

Swiss private collection, acquired from the above

by descent to the present owner


Published

Roberto Grossi, Castrum Campus Silvae historia, Vatican, 1956, p. 6, fig. 3 (third amphora from the left)

Giovannangelo Camporeale, La collezione alla Querce: materiali archeologici orvietani, Florence, 1970, p. 26, no. 8

Shirley Schwarz, "Orvieto Vases in the Getty Museum", in: Greek Vases in the Getty Museum, vol. 4 (Occasional Papers on Antiquities, 5), Malibu, p. 178, no. 26

On the Grossi Collection, its formation, and partial acquisition by the archeological museum of Chianciano Terme, see G. Paolucci, La collezione Grossi di Camporsevoli nel Museo civico archeologico di Chianciano Terme, 2007, passim.

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