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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED NOLAN AMPHORA

CIRCA 460-450 B.C.

Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED NOLAN AMPHORA
CIRCA 460-450 B.C.
13 ³/₄ in. (34.3 cm.) high
Provenance
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, by 1990.
Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired from the above by 1996; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 129-132, no. 29.
F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 92-93, fig. 89; p. 144, no. 12.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 19207.
Exhibition
Bremen, Antikenmuseum im Schnoor, 2005-2018.

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Lot Essay

The obverse shows a departure scene with a youthful warrior and a woman. The warrior wears a crested helmet, a breast-plate, an ornamented shoulder-guard, and a himation. He holds a spear in his left hand and turns his head to the right, looking at the woman who holds a phiale in her outstretched right hand. The woman wears a long pleated chiton beneath a himation, her hair bound in a fillet. A similarly clad woman adorns the other side. A band of meander encircles below the scenes.