< Previous18A LAMP WITH A BULL’S HEAD H. 17 cm. Wrought iron. Scythian, North West Caucasus, 1st–2nd cent. A.D. CHF 3,800 At one end of the large, bowl-shaped lamp the sides are squeezed together to form a nozzle for the wick. The high handle curves inwards and ends in a stylised bull’s head applique. The bull’s flat head has a drill hole in its middle and a hook is attached to the rounded muzzle. At the transition to the handle, two elegant S-shaped horns curve upwards. The base of the lamp is concave. It comes with its original chain composed of six links connected by hooks and loops. The surface of the exterior and interior is heavily corroded in some places. Intact. Formerly Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Munich, Auction 254, 13.2.2008, lot 412. The shape of the lamp and nozzle is reminiscent of Phoenician and Punic bowl-shaped oil lamps. Cf. H. Menzel, Antike Lampen im Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum, Cat. Mainz (Mainz 1969) 9 ff., fig. 1. For the bull’s head applique, cf. a candelabrum with three similar heads in the Museum Krasnodar, inv. no. KM-9700/482, from the region of Krasnodar in the Northwestern Caucasus by the Black Sea, cf. V. Schiltz (ed.), L’or des Amazones, Peuples nomades entre Asie et Europe, Cat. Paris (Paris 2001) 58 f., no. 311 with illus.19THE NECK OF A LARGE JUG WITH WATERFOWL H. 23.4 cm (including handle). Light red clay, dark brown glaze. Greek, Attic, Late Geometric IIa, 740–720 B.C. CHF 8,800 The flaring neck with a wide strap handle is decorated with three friezes framed by double or triple lines. At the top, waterfowl stand to left with their necks stretched upwards and dotted rosettes. In the middle, an energetic, hatched wave-band. Below, waterfowl standing to right and circles. At the top section of the shoulder metopes, a large, hatched maeander and zig- zags. The strap handle is decorated with crosses enclosed by squares. A short bar connects it with the neck. The dotted, raised borders of the handle partially preserved. Below the handle inv. nos. written in pencil “N 1537”, “N 437”. Slightly worn; inside with traces of sintering. Formerly Coll. Mme P., Paris. For the shape of the jug and the decorative raised borders of the handle, cf. Athens, National Museum, inv. no. 16022. 14411, in: J. N. Coldstream, Greek Geometric Pottery (London 1968) 67 ff., pls. 12 d; 13 a, c. For the style of the waterfowl friezes, cf. a jug in the British School of Athens, inv. no. A 305, in: Coldstream, pl. 13 a, and a jug from Würzburg, inv. no. H 5171, in: E. Simon, Die griechischen Vasen (Munich 1976) 32, no. II with illus. A related hatched wave-band decorates a kantharos in the Staatlichen Antikensammlungen, Munich, inv. no. 8501, cf. Simon, 31 f., no. 6 with illus.20A LARGE OINOCHOE WITH ANTILOPES H. 39.1 cm. Light red clay, dark brown glaze. Greek, Attic, Late Geometric IIa, ca. 740 – 730 B.C. CHF 66,000 Oinochoe with ovoid body, short neck, trefoil mouth and strap handle. Bands of decora- tion surround the body, from bottom to top: bands, zigzag, checkerboard, hatched upright triangles, and a maeander. Three metopes on shoulder: two with reclining antelopes, an eight-pointed star, and hatched triangles, the third with dotted grid. A maeander around the neck and dots along the trefoil rim. Tripartite handle, with five dotted crosses enclosed by squares; dots along the raised borders. Surface somewhat abraded. One side slightly redder due to the firing process. This side lightly retouched; opposite side more significantly re- touched, with little original surface exposed. Minor surface loss on belly. Reassembled from large fragments. Formerly Coll. O. Schwarzwälder, Germany, since the 1980s. Decoration, treatment of shape, and handles strongly reminiscent of a large amphora in the Toledo Museum of Art (inv. 1926.43) related to the Subdipylon Group by J. N. Coldstream. Cf. also a large amphora in the Rijksmuseum Leiden, inv. no. I.1909. Cf. J. N. Coldstream, Greek Geometric Pottery. A survey of ten local styles and their chronology (London 1968) 55 ff., pl. 11 a–b.21A BLACK-FIGURE OINOCHOE ATTRIBUTED TO THE GELA PAINTER H. 23.4 cm (including handle). Clay, white and red paint. Greek, Attic, 500–490 B.C. CHF 23,000 An oinochoe (pouring vessel for wine) with lively symposium scene around the belly. Three bearded and wreathed figures recline on cushions beneath an arbor of vigorous grape vines (perhaps Dionysos and his followers). Beneath the handle, two satyrs, their tails echoing the profile of the upswung handle, tend to a small fire. Low foot, trefoil mouth, and strikingly elongated body; rare use of white-ground and unusual “recurved” ivy on shoulder - all quirks known in the wide-ranging oeuvre of the Gela Painter (and potter). Slight areas of misfiring. Handle and part of the rim reattached. Formerly priv. coll. K. A., Riehen, Switzerland; acquired at Auktion Koller 33, no. 4185, May 1975. Thereafter by descent in the family. TL test available. - Symposia with Dionysos were a favourite subject of the Gela Painter. For the shape of the vessel and the drawing, cf. C. Kesser Barcellos Dias, O Pintor de Gela, Diss. Sao Paulo 2009, 56, fig. 31, cat. no. 223 (ivy tendrils), cat. nos. 109, 182 (shape of vase), cat. nos. 29, 229 (drawing).Next >