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THBLarge Corinthian Skyphos Animal Frieze, TL Tested
Lot 14
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Ancient Greece, Corinth, ca. 6th to 5th century CE. A wheel-thrown skyphos of sizable form with a flared discoid foot, an inverted bell-shaped body with swelling walls, and a thin rim adorned with a pair of parabolic handles. Painted with black and red pigments, the cream-hued exterior ground is decorated with a wide register of highly stylized zoomorphs that includes a goat with curved horns and a bowed head between a pair of prowling panthers as well as a bird - perhaps a dove - on the verso. The creatures' features are first created by applying the colorful pigment and then incising certain accentuating details like the panthers' eyes, the bird's feathers, and the goat's segmented horns. Additional floral motifs fill the spaces between the animals, with bands above and below, a band of wavy lines along the upper body, and slender rays encircling the lower body. The basin interior is covered with a layer of dark brown pigment that contrasts nicely with the soft yellow-white body. Size (including handles): 9.75" W x 4.75" H (24.8 cm x 12.1 cm)
The Corinthian style evolved from the earlier Geometric style. Surfaces were traditionally organized into horizontal bands, with an emphasis on repeated patterns, as well as an attractive play between light and dark. The Corinthian potters elected to expand the bands encircling the vessels, and fill them with both abstract, non-figural design motifs and zoomorphic images. On occasion they also included anthropomorphic motifs.
A very similar example hammered for 2,550 GBP ($3,117) at Bonhams, London, New Bond Street "Antiquities" auction (July 23, 2020, lot 15).
This piece has been tested using thermoluminescence (TL) analysis and has been found to be ancient and of the period stated. A full printed and bound report is available to the buyer upon request.
Provenance: ex-John B. Kendrick II collection, Denver, Colorado, USA, acquired 1965 to 1990; John B. Kendrick II was that son of John B. Kendrick, Wyoming governor and US senator
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance), we will no longer ship most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia or Germany, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage firm.
Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping.
#172416Repaired with restoration, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Fading and abrasions to pigment, with softening to some incised decorations, some possible touching-up of incised decorations, and craquelure to areas of pigment from possible refiring. Nice preservation to most zoomorphic figures. TL drill holes beneath base and under one handle.Condition
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