Property from a European Private Collection
An Attic Black-figured Amphora, attributed to the Swing Painter, circa 540-530 B.C.
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December 7, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a European Private Collection
A🌠n𒅌 Attic Black-figured Amphora, attributed to the Swing Painter
circa 540-530 B.C.
decorated on one side with Athena driving a four-horse chariot to right, a hare crouching below, and on the other side with two satyrs dancing with two maenads, a frieze of festooned palmette lotuses above each scene, rays above the foot, the detailꦗs in added red and white.
Height 49 cm.
Swiss art market, by 1972
private collection, ♛Boulogne-sur-Seine, acq⛦uired in the 1970s
by descent to the present owner
Published
Mary B. Moore, Horses on black-figured Greek vases of the archaic period, ca. 620-480 B.C.🦂, PhD diss., ♏New York University, 1972, p. 100, no. A 682
Elke Bohr, Der Schaukelmaler, Mainz, 1982, pp. 14, 22, 33,🔯 and 80, no. 18bis, pl. 20
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 7903