ATTRIBUTED TO THE MANNER OF THE LYSIPPIDES PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED LIDDED NECK-AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE MANNER OF THE LYSIPPIDES PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
18 ½ in. (47 cm.) high

Provenance

with Holger Termer, Hamburg, 1980 (Kunst der Antike, vol. 2, no. 4).
Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired by 1986; thence by descent to the current owner.

Literature

W. Hornbostel, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1986, pp. 56-59, no. 19.
M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 49-53, no. 8.
F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 88-90, fig. 87; p. 143, no. 5.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 5724.

Exhibited

Hamburg, BATIG Foyer Esplanade; Kiel, Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein Girozentrale; Bremen, Übersee-Museum, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, 29 May 1986-18 January 1987.
Bremen, Antikenmuseum im Schnoor, 2005-2018.
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 2018-2023.

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Lot Essay

Each side of this lively amphora features a quadriga driven by a charioteer and accompanied by an armed hoplite. Each charioteer dons a sleeveless patterned chiton rendered in added white. The hoplites each wear a crested Corinthian helmet; on one side he wields a circular shield and on the other he carries a Boeotian shield. To the right of the quadriga on one side is a kneeling hoplite, wearing a similar crested helmet, greaves and a corselet, who looks back with a raised spear in one hand and a circular shield in the other. For another amphora also in the manner of the Lysippides Painter with a similar chariot scene, see one side of the amphora in the Museo Nazionale Tarquiniense, Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 13851.

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