Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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Property from a English Private Collection

An Attic Black-figured Amphora, Attributed to the Painter of Louvre F6, circa 570-550 B.C.

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.

perhaps London art market, prior to 1956
Frances Gurney Rylander, born Wilson (1911-1985), Coxtie Green, Brentwood, Sussex, briefly married to MI6 officer Claude Dansey (d. 1947)
by descent to the present owner

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)