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LOT 0071
Greek Black-Figure Alabastron with Fighting Warriors
ATTIC, 500-480 B.C.
6 1/4 in. (262 grams total, 16 cm high including stand).
Of ovoid shape, short neck and expanded flat rim; painted in horizontal bands with black vertical strokes the shoulder, ovules in the upper part, the central scene representing a Greek Ekdromos fighting a Scythian archer; the Greek warrior, wearing a light sleeveless chiton, and a crested Corinthian helmet, carrying a wide hoplon shield, and a long spear with which he is slashing his opponent; the Scythian archer is wearing a typical tall cap flowing backwards and his long coat-suit, carrying a gorytos, (quiver) and composite bow with arrow; horizontal black stripes below; accompanied by a custom-made display stand.
ProvenanceLouis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899) collection, France.
European private collection, 2009.
Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.13019-246753.
Cf. for similar images Ivantchik, A.I., ‘’Scythian’ Archers on Archaic Attic vases: problems of interpretation’ in Ancient Civilizations from Scythians to Siberia, 12,3-4, Leiden, 2006, figs.nos.5,8; for the Greek and Scythian military costume Sekunda, N., The Ancient Greeks, London, 1986, pp.13-15; Head, D., The Achaemenid Persian Army,Stockport, 1992, figs.12,21, from similar alabastra; Sekunda, N., The Athenian Army 507-322 BC, Oxford, 2025, fig.p.20.
FootnotesThe importance of this alabastron is linked to its iconography, which represents episodes of the Persian Wars, fought 490-480 B.C. Such alabastra are part of a series realised during the period of the conflict and after, and they are an important source of information on the Persian and Greek armies. Here, the two opponents evoke the Greek victories, with a light-armed Greek ekdromos (hoplite fighting in light equipment) killing a Scythian archer, who formed part of the Persian army. The representation of Scythian costume in vase-painting reached its height of popularity between c. 530 and 490 B.C., and went out of fashion after the Graeco-Persian wars, when these clothes began to be associated with the Persian ethnic identity rather than the original Scythian.
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LOT 0071
Greek Black-Figure Alabastron with Fighting Warriors
Estimate £30,000 - 40,000€34,800 - 46,400 (for guidance only)$40,500 - 54,000 (for guidance only)
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Eastern Greek Marble Figure of Aphrodite
1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.Estimate: £5,000 - 7,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,778
Carved in the round figure of the goddess standing nude with one hand raised and the other on her pudendum, her hair gathered into a chignon with lateral bunches on the crown and with voids to allow for the suspension of small gold earrings; putto at her left knee; left hand partly absent; remounted on a socle base. 1.2 kg, 32.7 cm
Acquired in the 1992. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12860-241669. -
Greek Gold Ring with Rosettes
5th century B.C. or laterEstimate: £1,800 - 2,400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £900
Twisted hoop with granulated mounting lobes, swivel-mounted hollow-formed disc bezel with granule clusters to the rim, filigree and granule clusters to the obverse. 8.94 grams, 23.27 mm overall, 21.6x18.1 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P 1/2, USA 7 3/4, Europe 16.86, Japan 16)
Acquired on the UK art market 1971-1974. Private collection, London, UK. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13163-248089. -
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'The Guttmann' Large Greek Bronze Funerary Situla
7th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,560
Formed with a single-piece bottom and two-piece body riveted together; the underside recessed, sidewall flared with a carination at the shoulder and rolled rim; attachment point for handles at the seams below the shoulder and to the inner face of the rim; small repair panel to the inner face. 1.56 kg, 26.2 cm
Ex Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, Germany [1944-2001], AG 490. Private collection, UK. Accompanied by a copy of the relevant pages where this situla is published. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13059-248969.
The situla (type A of the Giuliani-Pomes classification) comes from a funerary complex that may have also included a geometric helmet with a horse protome. A very similar example comes from the Bernardini Tomb in Palestrina, now in the Archaeological Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome.
