Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from a English Private Collection
Lot Closed
December 17, 01:12 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a English Private Collection
An Attic Black-figured Amphora
Attributed to the Painter of Louvre F6, circa 570-550 B.C.
painted on each side with a departure scene showing a gesturing warrior wearing greaves, tunic, corselet, sheathed sword, and high-crested helmet, and holding a shield emblazoned with dots, a draped figure standing on either side; rays above the foot, a band of ivy leaves above each scene; details in added red and white, a dipinto under the foot.
Height 33.5 cm.
PUBLISHED
(perhaps J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-figures Vase-painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 126, no. 54 (Beazley Pottery Archive Database, no. 300950: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/650A92DA-A75E-49A6-9B81-B1912D69AEE3), according to an undated note by Prof. Charles Martin Robertson, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
For closely related compositions on two amphoras by the same painter see Capitoline Museum, Rome, inv. no. B4 (http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/7C55C643-7356-48E5-9D94-3C66856CE793) and Antikensammlungen, Munich, inv. no. J637 (http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/0F66D542-3F88-4AE3-AEFA-BE93CC880D6A)