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LOT 0519
Greek Corinthian Ceramic Alabastron with Geometric Design
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.
3 in. (36 grams total, 77 mm high including stand).
The piriform bottle with broad everted rim and strap handle, polychrome painted dashes and concentric bands to the upper body and rim; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1980s-1990s.
From the H.N. collection, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, UK.
Cf. a similar Etrusco-Corinthian alabastron in Princeton University Art Museum, inv. no.y1959-23.
FootnotesThe alabastron takes its name from the material (alabaster) from which it was originally produced by the people who inhabited Mediterranean Africa from where it spread in the classical world. From an archaeological point of view, our specimen belongs to the first type of alabastrons, a conventional form of Corinthian origin, widespread throughout Greece from the second half of the 7th century BC. to the mid-6th century B.C., characterised by an elongated body with a maximum diameter towards the base, and continuous profile. It seems to be an Etrusco-Corinthian variant.
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LOT 0519
Greek Corinthian Ceramic Alabastron with Geometric Design
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
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Etruscan Blackware Impasto Vase
8th-7th century B.C.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £500
Biconical with a tapering cylindrical neck and two handles, raised ribbing around the shoulder. 550 grams, 15 cm wide
Ex private Mister X. (1931-2017) collection. Sold in the benefit of the 'Croix-Rouge of Monaco'. -
Greek Black-Glazed Plate
5th-4th century B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
Shallow-bodied with broad foot; incised fluting around the exterior body and rim. 216 grams, 12 cm wide
Acquired in the 1960s-1970s. Ex European private collection. -
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Attic Red-Figure Fragment Attributed to the Thaliarchos Painter
5th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £702
Comprising the bottom part of a cup-skyphos or pyxis, decorated with concentric circles in red and black, the internal part painted with the image of a young athlete, wrapped in a short chlamys and leaning upon his staff, the ground represented as a concave space. 95 grams, 12.5 cm
Acquired in Europe before 1990. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11810-206516.
The everyday life of ancient Greeks is well represented on the Attic red figure paintings. The short cloak (chlamys) is the favourite garment for the men and the hair of the younger men is more often shown cropped than in the black Attic figure paintings. The nakedness of youths exercising at the palaistra could well have been an important source of inspiration for the Greek artists who were becoming increasingly aware of the possibilities to represent the physiology of subtle movement in paintings. The Thaliarchos painter is generally recognised as the artist of the tops of some powder-box pyxides, although it is not excluded that he was actively painting various types of vessels. The type of ground and the way in which the foot of the man is worked can support the thesis that the fragment is from his workshop.
