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A Chalcidian Black-figured Amphora, circa 550-525 B.C.
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description
- A Chalcidian Black-figured Amphora
- Height 11 5/8 in. 29.5 cm.
one side painted with two confronted seated lions each with raised paw and curling tail, the other decorated with two lions attacking an equine, the shoulder painted on each side with two horned grazing quadrupeds flanking an owl, rays above the foot, a wavy line encircling the neck, the details in added red.
Provenance
Professor Hans Erlenmeyer (1900-1967) and Marie Louise Erlenmeyer, Basel, collected between 1943 and 1958 (Sotheby's, London, Antiquities from the Erlenmeyer Collection, July 9th, 1990, no. 178, illus.)
Literature
Marie-Louise Erlenmeyer and Hans Erlenmeyer, “Über griechische und altorientalische Tierkampfgruppen,” Antike Kunst, vol. I, 1958, p. 53, pl. 27,1
Catalogue Note
For a related example in Leningrad see A. Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen, Berlin, 1927, pls. 152-154.