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Lot 17*

An Attic black-figure fragment of an amphora (Type B)
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7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £7,000

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An Attic black-figure fragment of an amphora (Type B)
Attributed to the Circle of The Swing Painter, circa 540-530 B.C.
Depicting a standing figure of a Nike, large wings outstretched to either side, her face turned back over her right shoulder, moving to her left, wearing a short tunic with red details, a red band tied about her head, flanked by draped male figures, with four smaller fragments, 18cm high (5)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Rolf Blatter Collection, Berne, Switzerland, before 1969.

Published:
R. Blatter, 'Neue Werke des Schaukel-Malers', AA, 1969, 70, fig. 1.
E. Böhr, Der Schaukelmaler, Mainz, 1982, 105, cat. no. U 10 (Umkreis des Schaukelmalers), 59 note 13, 73-74 note 532, pl. 155a.

Literature:
For a full amphora by the Swing Painter with similar scene in the Rhodes Archaeological Museum (inv. no.15590) cf. T.H. Carpenter, T. Mannack, and M. Mendonca, Beazley Addenda, Oxford, 1989, 79.

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