Property from the McLendon Collection
A CLAZOMENIAN SARCOPHAGUS RIM
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A CLAZOMENIAN SARCOPHAGUS RIM
Attributed to the Albertinum Group
Circa 480 B.C.
The trapezoidal rim painted in black-figure, the headpiece (worn) with a woman flanked by a running woman and a hoplite, with narrow band of egg and dart above, square and four below, the upper corner strips with narrow egg and dart, each upper panel with the forepart of a lion with square and four above, double hook meander between bands of square and four below, the sidepieces with cable and palmette, the lower panels with goats with astragal between rows of dots above, a row of dots below, the lower corner strip with meander, the footpiece with a lion, goat and panther, the outer edge with egg and dart, the inner edge with meander and rosette
79 1/2in. (201.9cm.) long
Attributed to the Albertinum Group
Circa 480 B.C.
The trapezoidal rim painted in black-figure, the headpiece (worn) with a woman flanked by a running woman and a hoplite, with narrow band of egg and dart above, square and four below, the upper corner strips with narrow egg and dart, each upper panel with the forepart of a lion with square and four above, double hook meander between bands of square and four below, the sidepieces with cable and palmette, the lower panels with goats with astragal between rows of dots above, a row of dots below, the lower corner strip with meander, the footpiece with a lion, goat and panther, the outer edge with egg and dart, the inner edge with meander and rosette
79 1/2in. (201.9cm.) long
Provenance
The Summa Galleries, Beverly Hills, Auction I, 1981, lot 60.
Literature
Cook, Clazomenian Sarcophagi, no. G 36A