Property from a Swiss Private Collection
An Attic Black-figured Amphoriskos, circa 575-525 B.C.
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July 5, 02:52 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
An Attic Black-figured Amphoriskos
circa 575-525 B.C.
painted on the body in a continual frieze with two courting birds, a swan with wings outstretched and an owl, dots and a r🌟osette💎 in the field, and on the shoulder with grazing goats, the details in added red.
Height 14.4 cm.
Louis-Gabriel Bell⛎on (1819-1899), Saint📖-Nicolas-lez-Arras
French private collection, by descent🤪 from the above (Jack-Phil👍ippe Ruellan, Vannes, April 4th 2009, no. 11, illus.)
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
The painting of the present amphoriskos displays stylistic similarities with the work of a group of painters active in Athens in the mid 6th century known as the Dolphin Group, who predominantly painted small lekythoi. See in particular an amphoriskos in Amsterdam (Haspels, 1936, Attic Black-figured Lekythoi, p. 16; BAPD 14087) and a lekythos in Hamburg (Beazley, 1971, Paralipomena, p. 199, no. 11; BAPD 351465).