ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF MUNICH 2676, CIRCA 470-460 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED KYLIX
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF MUNICH 2676, CIRCA 470-460 B.C.
6 ¼ in. (15.8 cm.) diameter, excluding handles

Provenance

with Holger Termer, Hamburg, by 1981.
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. 115-116, no. 54.
M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 122-123, no. 27.
F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, p. 44, fig. 36; p. 147, no. 36.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database nos. 16066 and 9054874.

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.

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Lot Essay

J.D. Beazley (p. 391 in Attic Red-Figured Vase-Painters, second edition) placed the Painter of Munich 2676 within the circle of the Brygos Painter. He notes that the artist “began as an imitator of the Brygos Painter, but in his later, early classic period had lost touch with the Brygan style.” In the tondo of the kylix presented here is a winged goddess, perhaps Nike, clad in a patterned chiton and a himation, her hair secured by a sakkos, moving to the right towards an altar with a torch held in her outstretched hand. For a similar scene by the artist, see the kylix in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, p. 393, no. 33 in Beazley, op. cit.

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