Neck amphora
Category
Ceramics
Date
600 BC - 570 BC
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
405 x 250 x 250 mm
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532416
Summary
Neck amphora, black figured. On one side is a battle with two warriors fighting, a third fallen, Athena present. On the other side is a war chariot wheeling round. Late 6th century BC. Athenian (Greek) black figure amphora – early 5th Century BC. The obverse image is a Hoplite battle scene with Athena (flesh in white) in the centre. On the reverse is a chariot scene. On a circular base, classic amphora style with wide rim and two handles. George Hammond Lucy, having been given by Lord Brooke of Warwick, a catalogue of Greek Vases and other artefacts to be sold in London, purchased some of the vases which are now in the Library. On 12 July 1838 he paid to Messrs. Brown, Scagliola Works, University Street, London, the sum of £125 for four vases. Some of the other vases were bought in Italy in 1842.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.