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Lot 39

An Attic black-figure neck amphora

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1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
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An Attic black-figure neck amphora
Attributed to the Group of Toronto 305, circa 550-500 B.C.
Side A depicting a bearded nude Herakles wrestling the Nemean Lion, with Athena on the right, holding a spear and wearing a high crested helmet, to the left an older bearded man wearing a striped chlamys and looking back over his shoulder at the fight, side B with a bearded charioteer turning his chariot, the two outer horses facing forward with the two central horses facing the viewer, a thick groundline below, red and black tongues on the shoulder, with double palmette chain on the neck above, rays emanating from the base, with thick triple reed handles, lotus bud and scrolling palmette tendrils under each handle, details incised and in added red and white, 32.5cm high

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Provenance:
Nabon collection, acquired prior to 1970 in Blois, France.
Collection Jacques et Janine Nabon, Blois; Rouillac, Montbazon, 8 June 2015, lot 340.

For another vase by the Group of Toronto 305 depicting Herakles fighting the Nemean Lion, see Beazley Archive no. 320251. For a very similar chariot mid-turn see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 96.9.10. As with the present lot, the two central horses look out to demonstrate the turning movement of the chariot, with the chariot axel visible behind the horses' legs. Both artists have chosen a remarkably low vantage point, which reveals the lower portions of the chariot box and emphasizes the mass and movement of the horses.

The Group of Toronto 305 belongs to the Circle of the Antimenes Painter (J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters, New York, 1978, pp. 282-283). Both painted on amphorae and favoured painting scenes of Herakles (J. Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, London, 1974, pp. 109-110).

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