ATTRIBUTED TO THE BOCHUM PAINTER, CIRCA 550 B.C.

Details

A CARIAN POTTERY DINOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE BOCHUM PAINTER, CIRCA 550 B.C.
16 in. (40.7 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1988, lot 153.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 29 November 1989, lot 47.
Robert Hecht, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the current owner 1989 or later.

Literature

R.M. Cook, “A Carian Wild Goat Workshop,” Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Oxford, 1993, pp. 109-115, no. 4.

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Lot Essay

The Bochum Painter’s workshop was likely located at Mylasa in Caria. His style is inspired by the Wild Goat style of Miletus, with the trefoil oinochoe being the painter’s most favored shape (See Cook, op. cit., pp. 109-110).

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