CIRCA 380-360 B.C.

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AN ATTIC POTTERY FIGURAL LEKYTHOS IN THE FORM OF A SPHINX
CIRCA 380-360 B.C.
5 ½ in. (13.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Karol Lanckoronski (1848-1933), Vienna, acquired by 1875; thence by descent to his son, Anton (Antoni) Lanckoronski (1893-1956), Vienna and Zurich.
Confiscated with the Lanckoronski Collection by the Gestapo, but remained at the Palais Lanckoronski, Vienna, 1939 (Inv. no. AL 971); probably removed to the Augustinerkeller beneath the Albertina, Vienna, by 1943.
Restituted to Anton (Antoni) Lanckoronski (1893-1956), Vienna and Zurich, 15 June 1948; thence by descent to his sister, Adelheid (Adelajda) Lanckoronska (1903-1980), Vienna and Zurich.
The Property of The Countess Adelheid Lanckoronska; Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1967, lot 85A.
Herbert James Powell Bomford (1896-1979), London; thence by descent.
The Bomford Collection of Ancient Terra-Cotta Figures: The Property of the Late H.J.P. Bomford, Esq.; Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1979, lot 250.
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, acquired from the above.
Private Collection, Berlin, acquired from the above; thence by descent.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2021.

Literature

G. Treu, Griechische Thongefässe in Statuetten- und Büstenform, Berlin, 1875, pp. 8-9, pl. V, no. 5.
F. Winter, Die antiken Terrakotten: Die Typen der figürlichen Terrakotten, vol. III, Teil 1, Berlin, 1903, p. 229, no. 7.
L. Séchan, “Léda et le cygne : étude sur un vase inédit du musée du Louvre, ” Revue Archéologique 4, T.20, July-December 1912, p. 126, no. 53.
B.V. Farmakovskij, Tri Polihromnye Vazy v Forme Statujetok Najdennye v Fanagorii, St. Petersburg, 1912, p. 34.
M. Trumpf-Lyritzaki, Griechische Figurenvasen des Reichen Stils und der Späten Klassik, Bonn, 1969, p. 59, no. 161.
P.R.S. Moorey, Ancient Glass, Jewellery and Terracottas from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Bomford, Oxford, 1971, no. 132.
J. Winiewicz-Wolska, Karol Lanckoronski and His Viennese Collection, vol. 1, Cracow, 2014, p. 496.

Exhibited

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Ancient Glass, Jewellery and Terracottas from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Bomford, 20 November-12 December 1971.

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Lot Essay

As Cohen informs (p. 289 in The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases), “Facing a decline in the quality of standard red-figure, several fourth-century Athenian pottery workshops adapted themselves to manufacturing a new product that combined a mold-made terracotta figurine with a vase.” These vases were exported widely and have been found in Etruria, Persia, the Black Sea region and even Sudan. For another example in New York, see p. 128 in Richter, Handbook of the Classical Collection.

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