CIRCA 510 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE HYDRIA, ATTRIBUTED TO THE LEAGROS GROUP
CIRCA 510 B.C.
The body panel depicting the harnessing of a chariot, a helmeted hoplite mounting the chariot, another at front holds the horses' bridles with shield on ground, a white-clad figure wearing a petasos stands with his arm over the horses, a charioteer stands behind, the panel bordered by a band of linked palmettes below and an ivy frieze at the sides
The shoulder panel depicting athletes, a pair of boxers each with nose bleeds and one with a bloody handprint, a trainer with staff, a discobolos, a runner, a flute-player in long white robe, and two sprinters, a band of rays above
Graffito (Type 21E) on base
Repaired
21 in. (53.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Giuseppe Bassegio collection, Rome: sold Sotheby's London, 13 July 1838, lot 34.
Edward Davies Davenport (1778-1847) of Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire, and his younger brother the Rev. Walter Davenport Bromley (1787-1862) of Wootton Hall, Staffordshire, and thence by descent.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 365, no. 64, attributed by P. E. Corbett.
Guide to Capesthorne Hall, Including a Description of the Special Exhibition "Treasures from Italy", 1956-1958.
J. M. T. Charlton, 'The Bromley-Davenport Vases', Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. LXXVIII, 1958, p. 20, pl. VIIIa/b.
C. Vermeule and D. von Bothmer, 'Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain', Part 3:1, American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 63, No. 2, April 1959, p. 148, no. 8, pl. 37, fig. 18.
A. W. Johnston, Trademarks on Greek Vases, Warminster, 1979, no. 54.

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