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An Attic Black-figured Band Cup , circa 540-530 B.C.
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description
- An Attic Black-figured Band Cup
- Diameter at rim 9 in. 22.9 cm.
each side painted with Herakles, armed with a sword, fighting the Nemean Lion between two gesturing onlookers, palmettes springing from vines flanking the handles, the details in added red and white.
Provenance
Arete, Galerie für Antike Kunst, Zurich, 1972
Literature
Arete, Galerie für Antike Kunst, Zurich, Liste 9, 8-9a
Beazley Pottery Archive Database no. 6945
Catalogue Note
For two other examples with similar subject by the same painter see Arete, Liste, 9,8-9b, and Charles Ede, London, Pottery from Athens, April 1972, no. 25.