Lot 33
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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF HANITA E. AND AARON DECHTER
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE BOMPAS GROUP, CIRCA LATE 6TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE BOMPAS GROUP, CIRCA LATE 6TH CENTURY B.C.
9 ½ in. (24.13 cm.) high
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 17 May 1976, lot 364.
with Charles Ede, London, 1977 (Pottery from Athens IV, no. 19).
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 1977.
Literature
F. Brommer, "Herakles und Theseus auf Vasen in Malibu," Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Occasional Papers on Antiquities 3, 1985, p. 195, n. 45.
J. Boardman, “Herakles, Delphi and Kleisthenes of Sikyon,” Revue Archéologique, fasc. 2, 1978, p. 228, figs. 1-2.
K. Hamma, ed., The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, San Bernardino, 1989, pp. 37-38, no. 18.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 1676.
Exhibited
San Bernardino and Northridge, University Art Galleries, California State University, The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, 5 May 1989-30 March 1990.

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Lot Essay

Depicted on one side is the struggle over the Delphic tripod. Herakles, with his lion skin tied around his neck, is depicted moving to the right but looking back. He holds the tripod in his left hand and his club raised over his head in his right. Apollo is in pursuit with both hands on the tripod, his sacred deer below.

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