Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Property from a European Private Collection
An Attic Black-figured Neck Amphora, attributed to the Affecter, circa 540-520 B.C.
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December 7, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a European Private Collection
An Attic Black-figured Neck Amphora, attributed to the Affecter
circa 540-520 B.C.
painted on one side with Herakles and Iolaos armed with sickles and fighting the Hydra and the giant crab Karkynos, Athena standing to left holding a spear, and on the other side with two warriors fighting between two onlookers, one shield emblazoned with writhing serpents in relief, a squatting satyr in one handle zone, a winged man in the other, rays and linked lotus buds above the foot, tongues above linked lotus buds on the shoulder, linked double-palmettes on the neck, the details in added red and white.
Height 40.5 cm.
Swiss private collection, by 1971
private collection, Boulogne-sur-Seine, acquired in the 1970s
by descent to the present owner
Published
Konrad Schauenburg, "Herakles und die Hydra auf attischem Schalenfuss", Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1971, p. 167f.
John D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 111, no. 37
Thomas H. Carpenter et al., Beazley Addenda, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1989, p. 62
Robin Hagg, ed., Ancient Greek Cult Practice from Archaeological Evidence. Proceedings of the 4th Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, Stockholm, 1998, p. 191, fig. 2
Elisa Pellegrini, Eros nella Grecia arcaica e classica, iconografia e iconologia, Rome, 2009, pl. 9
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 340431