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An Attic black-figure Little Master band cup fragment with Herakles and an Amazon

6 July 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Attic black-figure Little Master band cup fragment with Herakles and an Amazon
Near the Group of Villa Giulia 3559, circa 550-525 B.C.
13cm x 6.1cm

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Provenance:
Jannis Demetrios Mikas (1885-1956) collection, Paris; and thence by descent to his nephew, Georges N. Krimitsas (1920-2004), Paris.
with Galerie Gilgamesh, Paris.
with Galerie Tarantino, Paris, acquired from the above.
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above 12 November 2017.

The above fragment shows Herakles in combat with an Amazon, with spear-bearers standing behind, a similar scene to that on an Attic band cup attributed to the same Group in the British Museum (no. 1906,1215.2, Beazley Archive no. 302558). The group was named by Beazley after a cup in the Villa Giulia in Rome.

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