Lot 49
An Attic White-Ground Lekythos
Sale 761 - Antiquities & Islamic Art
Jun 16, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$6,000 -
8,000
Price Realized
$7,500
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Lot Description
An Attic White-Ground Lekythos
Attributed to the Little Lion Class, Circa Late 6th-Early 5th Century B.C.
with Apollo driving a quadriga.
Height 8 inches.
with Apollo driving a quadriga.
Height 8 inches.
Property from the George R. Francoeur Trust, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, sold to benefit the George R. Francoeur Scholarship Fund at Cranbrook Academy of Art
Provenance:
William Randolph Hearst, San Simeon, California
Parke Bernet, New York, April 5-6, 1963
Donna Jacobs Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, 1985 (with invoice)
Literature:
J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 512, no. 2.
J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 251.
Beazley Archive Database no. 305580
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