Lot
337
Grave stone of fortune teller Pyrrhichos. 1st half of the 4th century BC
Estimate:
EUR 50,000
- 70,000
USD 58,900
- 82,400
Sold for:
62,500 EUR (incl. premium)
Autumn Auctions 2017
ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 30.11.2017
Supplement: Letter by Christoph Clairmont to Holger Termer dated 13 November 1990 (in copy).
Collection Holger Termer, Hamburg (1977) / collection Ingeborg and Alfred Wurm (1927–2014), Hamburg (acquired in 1991 at Kunsthandlung Holger Termer, Hamburg)
Holger Termer: Kunst der Antike. Exh. cat., Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, 1978 (not in the catalogue)
Gottfried Sello: Kunst der Antike. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 8 December 1978, Kunstkalender / Christoph W. Clairmont: Gravestone and Epigram. Greek Memorials from the Archaic and Classical Period. Mainz, 1970, no. 3 and 15, plate 8 (for painted image of the deceased) / Ders.: two Inedita. In: Marijke Gnade and Conrad M. Stibbe (ed.): Stips Votiva. Papers presented to C. M. Stibbe. Amsterdam, 1991, p. 47–50, ill. 1 (to classify the grave stone) / Janet Burnett Grossman: Funerary Sculpture. Princeton, 2013 (The Athenian Agora, vol. 35), cat. no. 153, p. 133f. (parallel to the ornament in the anthemion)
