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American Private Collection (Lots 26-27)
Lot 26*

An Attic black-figure band-cup with Herakles fighting the Nemean lion and a wrestling scene with bystanders

4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£6,000 - £8,000

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An Attic black-figure band-cup with Herakles fighting the Nemean lion and a wrestling scene with bystanders

Circa 535-525 B.C.
13cm high, 29.7cm diam

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Provenance:
Professor Hans Dahn (1919-2019) Collection, Lausanne, Switzerland (acquired 7 April 1954).
with Galerie Cahn, Basel, Switzerland, (Online Auction, 14 September 2020, lot 17 unsold).
American private collection, acquired from the above, April 2022.

The obverse depicts Herakles grappling the Nemean lion flanked by bystanders, the other side with a nude athletic youth wrestling an older portly nude male figure, flanked by bystanders, palmettes on either side of the handles. For another band-cup with Herakles fighting the Nemean lion in Taranto Archaeological Museum no.4479 see Beazley Archive no. 25106.

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