Anna Marston
Associate Specialist
Lot 19*
An Attic black-figure volute-krater fragment with chariots
6 July 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,792 inc. premium
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Francesca Hickin
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An Attic black-figure volute-krater fragment with chariots
Possibly of the Leagros Group, circa 525-500 B.C.
5cm x 12cm
Possibly of the Leagros Group, circa 525-500 B.C.
5cm x 12cm
Footnotes
Provenance:
Vicomte Maurice du Dresnay (1863-1938) collection, Château Dréneuc at Fregreac in Brittany, inv. no. 08036.
G.C. collection, Paris.
with Jean-David Cahn AG, Basel (Tiere und Mischwesen X, catalogue no. 21, 2016, no. 19).
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above.
The Leagros Group take their title from the kalos name on five of their hydriae. They are skilled in rendering overlapping figures, as can be seen on this fragment. The above fragment most likely comes from the neck of a volute krater and depicts a chariot race or start of a competition. Chariot racing was a sport practiced by the Athenian elite, where it was the owners of the horses and chariots, rather than the drivers, whose names were entered into the races. For further discussion on chariot racing by the Greeks see, P. Schertz, "From Myth to History: The Chariot in Ancient Greek Art", The Horse in Ancient Greek Art, Middleburg, 2018, pp. 39-51.