Details
Tallest: 578 in. (15 cm.) high
Provenance
White-ground: with Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, Switzerland, Sonderliste C, December 1957, no. 29, Abb. pl. 14.
Black-figured: with Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, Switzerland, December, 1953, no. 21, pl. 6.
Both: Dr. Harald Schmid (1901-1970), Biel, Switzerland, acquired at the above; thence by descent to present owner.
Literature
White-ground: J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1963, p. 720, no. 23.
Kunst der Antike aus Privatbesitz Bern, Biel, Solothurn: Zentralbibliothek Solothurn, (exhibition cat.), 1967, p. 38, no. 114.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 9027970.
Black-figured: Kunst der Antike aus Privatbesitz Bern, Biel, Solothurn: Zentralbibliothek Solothurn, (exhibition cat.), 1967, p. 30, no. 93.
Exhibited
Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek, Kunst der Antike aus Privatbesitz Bern-Biel-Solothurn, 21 October-3 December 1967.
Special notice
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