Amphora Showing Heracles Battling the Nemean Lion, Attributed to the Antimenes Painter
Attic Greek, ca. 525 B.C.
Height: 45 cm (including lid)
Terracotta
Provenance
Giuseppe Bassegio, Rome; Ex-Collection Edward Davies Davenport (1778-1847) of Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire, UK.
Published
Sotheby's London, 13 July 1838, lot 28;
Guide to Capesthorne Hall, Including a Description of the Special Exhibition "Treasures from Italy", 1956-1958.
J. M. T. Charlton, 'The Bromley-Davenport Vases', Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. LXXVIII, 1958, p. 19, pl. VIIa/b.
C. Vermeule and D. von Bothmer, 'Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain', Part 3:1, American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 63, No. 2, April 1959, p. 148, no. 5.
J. D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 120, no. 92 bis., attributed by J. M. T. Charlton.
J. Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, London, 1974, fig. 189.
L. Bromley-Davenport, Guide to Capesthorne Hall, Sandbach, 1979, p. 10, fig. 13.
C. A. Picón, Classical Antiquities from Private Collections in Great Britain, London, 1986, pp. 20-21, no. 12, pl. III.
J. Burow, Der Antimenesmaler, Mainz, 1989, pl. 155, no. U18.
A. W. Johnston, Trademarks on Greek Vases Addenda, Oxford, no. 12a
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