Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
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An Attic Black-figured Amphora, attributed to Group E, circa 530-510 B.C.
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December 7, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
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Another Property
An Attic Black-figured Amphora
attributed to Group E, circa 530-510 B.C.
decorated on one side with a warrior riding a quadriga to right and trampling a fallen warrior, his charioteer standing at his side, pseudo inscriptions in the field, a band of double palmette and lotus chain above, and on the other side with Dionysos standing before a veiled woman, holding a drinking horn and ivy branch, and flanked by three dancing satyrs, a band of double palmette chain above, rays above the foot, the details in added red and white, graffiti under the foot.
Height 40.6 cm.
Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano (1775-1840), and Alexandrine Bonaparte, Princess of Canino and Musignano (1778-1855), excavated by them at Vulci in 1828/1829 and recorded in two drawings by Eduard Gerhard (1795-1867) between 1830-1840
Giuseppe Basseggio, Rome, circa 1830-1840
Kotobukiya, Tokyo, 1980
private collection, Tokyo, 1980-2013
Christie's, New York, June 6th, 2013, no. 551, illus.
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Published
Alessandra Costantini, Roma nell'età della Restaurazione: Un aspetto della ricerca archeologica. La collezione di vasi attici di Luciano e Alexandrine Bonaparte, riprodotta nei disegni del "Gerhard'scher Apparat" (Atti della Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di scienze morali, storiche et filologiche; Memorie, serie 9, vol. 10, fasc. 3), Rome, 1998, p. 322, fig. 123, reproducing detailed drawings of the present vase's figural panels, both commissioned between 1830-1840 by Eduard Gerhard and now in the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin (Berliner Apparat, XI, 54), each captioned "Vaso Basseggio della quadriga", with indications of added colours, one with a sketch of the vase itself accompanied by measurements
Lucien and Alexandrine Bonaparte's systematic excavations at Vulci produced more than 2000 Greek vases, most of which were dispersed in the course of several auctions in the 1830s and 1840s; see R. B. Halbertsma, ed., The Canino connections. The history and restoration of ancient Greek vases from the excavations of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino (1775-1840), Leiden, 2017: https://www.sidestone.com/openaccess/9789088904998.pdf.