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LOT 0787
Greek Lead Votive Figure
3RD-1ST MILLENIUM B.C.
3 in. (46.9 grams total, 76 mm including stand).
Formed as a standing figure of a nude man with one hand raised, one hand and leg absent; mounted on a custom-made stand with an old label to the underside reading 'Minoan, Pb Cohen, Paris X, 1988'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceLa Reine Margot Gallery, Paris, France, October 1988.
From the collection of a Kensington, London, UK, gentleman.
Private collection, London, UK.
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LOT 0787
Greek Lead Votive Figure
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Very Large Greek Red-Figure Column Krater with Bull and Rider
Attic, 5th century B.C.Estimate: £25,000 - 35,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £12,500
With a flared and stepped foot, poppy-head border around the lower body and neck, strap handles with palmettes to the upper faces opening to two columnar legs; red-figure scenes to the neck and body: Side A, Europa's abduction: standing bearded figure in profile wearing a loose himation holding the lid of a krater in one hand facing a female figure in draped himation revealing one breast, turning to face the male while mounted on an advancing bull and carrying a frond; Side B, Dionysiac scene: satyr standing nude, playing a lyre beside a standing robed male wearing a laurel wreath in his hair, dancing female in active pose with musical instruments in each hand, turning to face the robed figure; some restoration. 5.85 kg, 44.5 cm high
Red-figure technique, with certain details highlighted in a wine-colored hue. The surface has taken on a light yellow hue throughout. Some cracks, and the varnish is chipped in some place.
German private collection (870632). Anonymous sale, Hampel Fine Arts auction, Munich, 21 September 2012, no.625. Private collection, acquired on the German art market. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Jacques Chamay. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13218-249222.
The two figurative scenes are of equal importance. The Dionysian scene depicts the god, in the centre, between a satyr playing a lyre and a dancing maenad. The other scene depicts a well-known subject: the abduction of Europa. This is the daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre in Phoenicia. Of great beauty, she is desired by Zeus. He approaches her in the form of a white bull while she is playing on the beach. Initially frightened, the young woman begins to caress the animal, then becomes more daring and climbs onto its back. Zeus immediately abducts her and rushes out to sea, toward Crete. There, he will be united with Europa, who will bear him three children, including Minos. -
Greek Black Glazed Skyphos
South Italian, 5th-4th century B.C.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Mammiform body with pedestal base and two loop handles below the everted rim. 170 grams, 16.5 cm
Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. -
Scythian Bronze Galloping Stag Strap Decoration
Circa 5th-3rd century B.C.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
Modelled as a stylised quadruped with its legs folded beneath the body, long curving horns and circular cells on the body and eye, two lugs on the reverse. 24.3 grams, 51 mm
Ex Abelita collection, 1990s.
