Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
An Attic Black-figured Oinochoe, circa late 6th Century B.C.
Auction Closed
December 7, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
An Attic Black-figured Oinochoe
circa late 6th Century B.C.
with echinus foot, round mouth, and high concave handle with arms extending onto the rim, the frontal panel painted with two warriors riding in a quadriga wheeling sharply around, one warrior wearing a Corinthian helmet and holding a shield emblazoned with a hound, the other wearing an Attic helmet, a third warrior confronting them and holding a shield and spear; the details in added white and red, a graffito underneath the foot.
Height 24.5 cm.
Herbert Cahn, Münzen und Medaillen A.G. Basel, by May, 1965 (negatives in the photographic archive of Dietrich Widmer)
Lester Wolfe, New York (Sotheby’s, New York, Antiquities and Islamic Art, Including the Collection of the Late Lester Wolfe, New York, March 1st-2nd, 1984, no. 56, illus. )
New York private collection (Sotheby’s, New York, May 29th, 1987, no. 130, illus.)
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Published
A. J. Clark, Attic Black-figured Olpai and Oinochoai, doctoral dissertation, New York, 1992, p. 525, cat. no. 1145 bis., assigned by A. J. Clark to the Kuhn Class. The author notes that this is probably the same vase as the one mentioned by Donna Kurtz, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 1, 1982, 166 n. 41.
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