The intensity of a competition is communicated in various ways on these prize jars. Often the emphasis is on the movement of the horses. Here it is expressed in the pose of the charioteer.
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Title:Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora (jar)
Artist:Attributed to the Group of Copenhagen 99
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 530 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:H. 24 13/16 in. (63 cm); diameter of mouth 6 15/16 in. (17.6 cm); diameter of foot 4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Fletcher Fund, 1956
Object Number:56.171.5
Inscription: Inscribed: "one of the prizes from Athens"
Until 1851, collection of James Thomson (d. 1850), Esq., Primrose, Clithero, UK; July 18, 1851, sold through Sotheby & Wilkinson, London (lot 148); by 1851, collection of Bram Hertz (d. 1865), London; 1850s-1890, collection of W. H. Forman (d. 1869) and then of his descendants, Pippbrook House, Dorking, Surrey, UK; 1890-1899, collection of W.H. Forman’s nephew, Major Alexander H. Browne (d. 1894) and then of his descendants, Callaly Castle, Northumberland, UK; June 19-22, 1899, sold through Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, London (lot 314); by 1928 and until 1936, collection of Agathe and Ernst Saulmann, Florence, Italy; September 10, 1936, acquired by Joseph Brummer, purchased from Ernst Saulmann; [September 1936-January 1937, with Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York (P13083)]; January 22, 1937, acquired by William Randolph Hearst, purchased from J. Brummer; 1937-1951, collection of William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), New York and San Simeon (inv.no. 3984/PC 8058); 1951-1956, with the W.R. Hearst International Studio Arts Corporation; acquired in 1956, purchased from the W. R. Hearst Corporation.
Sotheby's, London. 1851. Catalogue of a Valuable and Interesting Collection of Miscellaneous antiquities, including the property of the late James Thomson, Esq., of Primrose, Clithero…, July 18, 1851. lot 148.
Gerhard, Eduard. 1851. "Gemmen. und Antikensammlung des Hrn. B. Hertz." Archäologischer Anzeiger, IX: col. 120.
1869. National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds 1868, Official Catalogue no. 219, p. 109, section B, Leeds: Edward Baines and Sons.
von Brauchnitsch, G. 1910. Die panathenäischen Preisamphoren. no.37, p.35, Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner.
Smetz, A. 1936. "Groupes chronologiques des amphores panathénaïques inscrites." L’Antiquité Classique, 5(1): no. 155, p.103.
Peters, K. 1941. Studien zu den panathenäischen Preisamphoren. p. 3 n. 20, Köln: Deutsches Archaologisches Institut.
von Bothmer, Dietrich and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule. 1956. "Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis : Ancient marbles in Great Britain. Part II." American Journal of Archaeology, 60(4): no. 314, p. 341.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1963. Attic Black-Figured Amphorae, Corpus vasorum antiquorum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fasc. 3., USA. p. 31, pl. 38, Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press.
Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. p. 175, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Moore, Mary B. 1987. "Attic Black Figure and Black glazed potter." The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya: Final Reports, III. no. 76, p. 17, Philadelphia and Tripoli: University of Pennsylvania.
Bentz, Martin. 1998. Panathenaische Preisamphoren: eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr., Vereinigung der Freunde antiker Kunst, Vol. 18. p. 12, fig. 6.049, Basel: Vereinigung der Freunde antiker Kunst.
Eschbach, Norbert. 2017. Panathenäische Preisamphoren aus dem Kerameikos zu Athen, Kerameikos 21: p. 347, Beilage I: 1, 14.
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. The Forman Collection: Catalogue of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities (the Bronzes and Vases Described by Cecil H. Smith...) and Objects of Art of the Renaissance, etc ... (first portion), June 19–22, 1899, London. lot 314.
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