Amphora by the Amsterdam Painter

Etruscan, mid 7th Century BC

Clay, cream slip and red-brown colour.

H 45.7 cm

Ovoid corpus with long neck, wide mouth with flat rim, trumpet-like foot and two handles. On the body a frieze with a bird with wings spread out, a wild boar, a panther, a standing male figure, a disc, a snake biting the tail of a griffin in front of it. Rare. Intact.

Published

The Art of the Italic Peoples from 3000 – 300 BC, Geneva 1993 no. 129

Provenance

Collection Heinz Weisz, Geneva, acquired in the 1960s.

Accompanied by an Art Loss Register certificate.

Price

€ 19,000

Item

7484

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