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Lot 8
An important neck amphora
Estimated Value:
15.000 € - 25.000 €
Result:
incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Early Corinthian, late 7th century BCH. 37,2 cm
Composed of numerous fragments; only minor additions. Clay leather brown. Handle with four ribs. On the top of the mouth and inside at the base of the neck a red hoop between white rings. On the lip of A a white rosette; below, slightly offset to the right, two white rosettes around a red plastic ring. The rosette on the lip of B is only faintly preserved. Below each of the four friezes two broad red and two narrow white rings around broad black stripes. ÜAbove the footß with two red circular lines aureole. On the underside of the foot two narrow black circles in a wide black circle. Shoulder A: a ruddy siren looking back between two swans. Shoulder B: same depiction, but without looking back. Belly frieze: Panther, sphinx, swan, sphinx n. l., panther n. l., swan, panther, bull n. l., panther, bull n. l. Löwe, grazing ibex, lion n. l., bull, lion n. l., ram, löwe and bull n. l. Bull n. l., Swan between antithetical löwen, grazing ibex, panther n. l., bull, panther n. l. ´, all friezes with dense füll rosettes and rich use of red.
Important private collection Rhineland, acquired on 14.5.1960, lot 121 at Ars Antiqua AG Luzern, published in the sales catalogue Antike Kunstwerke, Auktion II, with text and image description on p. 46, by inheritance within the family to the present owner
Important work of a rare type. The kinked, quadruple-ribbed handles (cf. Amphora P. Mingazzini, Vasi Castellani, pl. 26,2) point to a metal model. H. Payne (Necrocorinthia 300) already emphasised that Corinthian neck amphorae imitate metal vessels. For comparison, see Payne, Pl. 23.5: Amphora London; there different handles and more rounded shape
