Lot 44
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED RHYTON IN THE FORM OF A RAM’S HEAD
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED RHYTON IN THE FORM OF A RAM’S HEAD
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED RHYTON IN THE FORM OF A RAM’S HEAD
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED RHYTON IN THE FORM OF A RAM’S HEAD

ATTRIBUTED TO THE ERETRIA PAINTER, SPETIA CLASS, CIRCA 430-420 B.C.

Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED RHYTON IN THE FORM OF A RAM’S HEAD
ATTRIBUTED TO THE ERETRIA PAINTER, SPETIA CLASS, CIRCA 430-420 B.C.
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) long
Provenance
Private Collection, South America.
with Herbert A. Cahn, Basel, 1990 (Schweizerische Kunst-und Antiquitätenmesse, no. 65).
Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired from the above, 1990; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
A. Lezzi-Hafter, "Licht und Schatten, Zu einem Gesamtkunstwerk des Eretria-Maler," in H. Froning, et al., eds., Kotinos: Festschrift für Erika Simon, Mainz am Rhein, 1992, p. 231, n. 10, no. 5.
M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meistenzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 160-162, no. 38.
M. Philipp, et al., Dionysos: Rausch und Ektase, Munich, 2013, pp. 120-121, no. 25.
F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, p. 29, fig. 22; p. 147, no. 42.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 19609.
Exhibited
Bremen, Antikenmuseum im Schnoor, 2005-2018.
Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Dionysos: Rausch und Ektase, 6 February-10 June 2014.
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 2018-2023.

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Lot Essay

According to G.M.A. Richter (Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey, p. 133), the Eretria Painter "is distinguished especially for his exquisite line. His gentle faces and beautifully drawn hands impart an almost exaggerated air of refinement to his figures." The bowl of this rhyton depicts two satyrs, one holding a wineskin in his outstretched hand, with palmettes on either side of the handle. The painter also included satyrs on the bowl of a footed rhyton, similarly in the form of a ram’s head, now in the Museo Nazionale di Spina in Ferrara (p. 1251, no. 36 in J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figured Vase Painters, second edition, vol. II).

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