ATTRIBUTED TO GROUP G, CIRCA 360 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED PELIKE
ATTRIBUTED TO GROUP G, CIRCA 360 B.C.
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high

Provenance

with Galerie Fortuna, Zurich, 1988 (Antiken Katalog, vol. 12, no. 11).
Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired from the above, 1989; thence by descent to the current owner.

Literature

M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 154-156, no. 36, pl. 24.
F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 30-31, fig. 23; p. 144, no. 14.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 21325.

Exhibited

Bremen, Antikenmuseum im Schnoor, 2005-2018.
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 2018-2023.

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Lot Essay

According to J.D. Beazley (Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painting, p. 1462), the trio of griffin, Amazon and horse head, as here, occurs frequently on Group G pelikae (see for example one in Munster, Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 5542).

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