CIRCA 530-520 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED HYDRIA
CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Kunstwerke der Antike, Auktion 56, Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, 19 February 1980, lot 71.
Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired by 1986; thence by descent to the current owner.

Literature

W. Hornbostel, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens, Meisterwerke Griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1986, p. 56, no. 18.
M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, p. 168.
F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 44, 122, figs. 37, 120; p. 145, no. 20.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 642.

Exhibited

Hamburg, BATIG Foyer Esplanade; Kiel, Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein Girozentrale; Bremen, Übersee-Museum, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, 29 May 1986-18 January 1987.
Bremen, Antikenmuseum im Schnoor, 2005-2018.
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 2018-2023.

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Lot Essay

The scene on the body shows a female figure mounting a quadriga, with a fully armed warrior beside the horse and a draped female looking on from the right. On the shoulders, two athletes wrestle between two draped youths. For a related hydria, see the example at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tours, Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 5600.

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