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An Attic black-figure panel amphora (Type B) image 1
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Lot 29*

An Attic black-figure panel amphora (Type B)

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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An Attic black-figure panel amphora (Type B)
Circa mid-6th Century B.C.
Each side depicting a quadriga, only three horse's head visible, the rider mounting the chariot on side A, holding a whip and the reigns, with a draped female figure watching, side B depicting the rider boarded, the horses' forelegs primed for movement, both scenes with a red groundline, band of dotted hanging lotus buds above, rays around the foot, details in added red, with considerable restoration and overpainting, 46.5cm high

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Provenance:
with Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo, 1972 (Kokusai Bijutsu: Western Ancient Art Exhibition, p. 33).

For similar, see an amphora in the Museum of Applied Arts in Prague, Beazley Archive no. 74684, and one in the Museo Archeologico Regionale in Agrigento, Beazley Archive no. 15732. In the Prague example the rider is accompanied by a male youth.

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