Lot 21
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A Campanian Red-figured Neck Amphora, attributed to the Painter of New York GR 1000, circa 340 B.C.

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • A Campanian Red-figured Neck Amphora, attributed to the Painter of New York GR 1000
  • Height 21 1/4 in. 54 cm.
painted with a warrior standing in front of an altar and flanked by two women, one holding a situla and mirror, the other a fan, the warrior holding a shield, and wearing greaves, short tunic, breastplate, and high-crested Attic(?) helmet, the reverse with two youths standing on either side of an altar, one offering the other a casket, a wave pattern below the scenes, palmettes in the handle zones, an olive-leaf wreath on the shoulder, the neck decorated on both sides with a profile head of a woman wearing a sakkos and earring; details in added white and yellow.

Provenance

French collection
Bonham's, London, April 8th, 1997, no. 84, illus.