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Auction archive: Lot number 77

AN ETRUSCAN IMPASTO DOLIUM

Auction 12.12.2002
12 Dec 2002
Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$3,107
Auction archive: Lot number 77

AN ETRUSCAN IMPASTO DOLIUM

Auction 12.12.2002
12 Dec 2002
Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$3,107
Beschreibung:

AN ETRUSCAN IMPASTO DOLIUM Circa Early 6th Century B.C. Perhaps from Caere, ovoid in form, on a flat base, with a wide outward curving mouth, the body with vertical fluting, a torus molding below and high on the shoulders above a band of knobs and a band in stamped shallow relief, depicting a man fighting a lion to his left, a sphinx behind the lion, and two figures bringing a sacrificial bull to an altar, the figure behind the bull holding a branch, the scenes repeating several times 18 7/16 in. (46.8 cm) high

Auction archive: Lot number 77
Auction:
Datum:
12 Dec 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

AN ETRUSCAN IMPASTO DOLIUM Circa Early 6th Century B.C. Perhaps from Caere, ovoid in form, on a flat base, with a wide outward curving mouth, the body with vertical fluting, a torus molding below and high on the shoulders above a band of knobs and a band in stamped shallow relief, depicting a man fighting a lion to his left, a sphinx behind the lion, and two figures bringing a sacrificial bull to an altar, the figure behind the bull holding a branch, the scenes repeating several times 18 7/16 in. (46.8 cm) high

Auction archive: Lot number 77
Auction:
Datum:
12 Dec 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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