2 INTERNATIONAL AG Cahn - A Name in the Ancient Art Trade since 1863 TEFAF New York Spring May 4 8 May 4 5, 7 May 6, 8 12 am to 8 pm 12 am to 6 pm Park Avenue Armory New York Stand 57 Telephone +41 79 855 78 37 Le monde est désormais sans mystère Franz Erhard Walther invited at Cahn Gallery during ART BASEL 2018 A joint project by Jocelyn Wolff and Jean-David Cahn Opening June 11 June 12 17 8 pm to 10 pm 11 am to 6 pm Cahn Gallery Malzgasse 23 Basel Telephone +41 61 271 67 55 A VOTIVE RELIEF WITH ASKLEPIOS Within the architecturally framed picture field the bearded god Asklepios, leaning on his snake-entwined staff, turns towards the youth standing before him. In his right hand, the youth holds up a tablet on which he had probably noted his request. The image is not the representation of an actual ritual but reflects the religious experience made by the dedicant. The dedication ΘΕΟΙ is chiselled into the bottom moulding. Marble. H. 37.5 cm. W. 47 cm. Attic, early 4th cent. B.C. Priv. coll. Switzerland, acquired 1962 from Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel. Widmer Archive photo no. 2643. A MONUMENTAL THEATRE MASK Monumental mask with grotesque facial features, representing the type of the New Comedy house slave. Dramatically curved eyebrows above wide-open, goggling eyes with pronounced tear ducts and drilled pupils. Low forehead and short, broad nose. Its tip almost reaches down to the wide-open mouth which forms a gaping opening and is surrounded by a short, curly beard. The monumental size of the mask indicates that it originally adorned a building, possibly in a manner similar to the masks that grace the scaenae frons of the Odeon of Hadrian s Villa in Tivoli. Marble. H. 45 cm. Roman, 2nd cent. A.D. With Sotheby s New York, 12.6.1993, lot 154, illus. Christie s London, 21.4.1999, lot 179, illus. Thereafter European priv. coll. A MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A MAN Frontal portrait of a young man with a narrow face, high forehead and short hair and beard. The prominent eyes and nose as well as the crisp, tightly closed lips create a convincing image of the deceased. The characteristically stepped shape of the panel at shoulder level indicates that it possibly originated from Antinoopolis. An irregular crack in the middle of the panel, paint darkened and flaked off in places; traces of glue from the mummy wrappings preserved. Roman Egypt, 2nd quarter of 3rd cent. A.D. Encaustic on thin cypress wood panel. H. 40.6 cm. Previously New York priv. coll., before 1977. Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 21st May 1977, lot 396, illus. Formerly Harmer Rooke Galleries, New York, 4th May 1995, lot 196, illus. Formerly Pennsylvania priv. coll. Published by K. Parlasca and H.G. Frenz in Ritratti di mummie: Repertorio d arte dell Egitto greco-romano, Series B, Vol. IV (Rome, 2003) no. 890, pl. 189.3. A MUMMY MASK OF A LADY The plastically modelled, stuccoed and polychromed portrait comes from an anthropoid sarcophagus which was composed of several cases placed one inside the other. The ageless face is dominated by slanting almond-shaped eyes and elegantly curved eyebrows, full lips. The lady wears a heavy wig that is adorned by a broad, brilliantly coloured diadem and a bunch of three lotus blossoms above the forehead. Disk-shaped earrings complete her jewellery. Neck partially preserved. Wood, stucco, polychromy. H. 27 cm. Egypt, late New Kingdom (20th Dynasty) to early 3rd Intermediate Period, ca. 1100-1050 B.C. Formerly Collection Ernest Cramer-Sarasin, Geneva/Cairo; acquired February 1888 in Thebes with Swiss Egyptologist Edouard Naville. Thence by descent. Thereafter priv. coll. Switzerland, acquired 2005. At the back an old label: Thèbes Fev. 1888. Published by A. Wiese - M. Pager-Gasser, Ägypten, Augenblicke der Ewigkeit. Unbekannte Schätze aus Schweizer Privatbesitz (Mainz 1997) 198 f., no. 130 with ill.; Musée d art et d histoire (ed.), Voyages en Egypte de l Antiquité au début du XXe siècle (Geneva 2003) 185-187 with illus. 18. A BLACK-FIGURE AMPHORA WITH LID, ATTRIBUTED TO THE LEAGROS GROUP A: Quadriga led by Athena. The goddess wears a helmet with high crest and a scaly aegis. B: Dionysos accompanied by two dancing maenads. The god stands wrapped in a cloak. In his right hand he holds an object, possibly a bunch of grapes. Vine tendrils and grapes as decorative elements. Palmettes and lotus buds below the handles. Frieze of double palmettes at the neck. A frieze of tongues at the shoulder. Below the ground line a frieze of lotus buds. The ribbed handles and torus foot are black glazed. Graffito on the underside of the foot. Reassembled. Parts of the body and mouth restored. The lid decorated with concentric circles and a frieze of dots is not the original lid. Attic, ca. 500-480 B.C. Clay. H. 41.4 cm. Formerly priv. coll. France. Thereafter priv. coll. D.R., London, acquired from Jean-David Cahn AG, Grosvenor House Art Fair, 2007, no. 62. AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE AMPHORA OF PANATHENAIC SHAPE, ATTRIBUTED TO THE FLYING-ANGEL PAINTER A single, monumental figure is depicted on each side of this red-figure neck-amphora of Panathenaic shape. Side A shows a nude youth striding to left. The Corinthian helmet and the large, round shield with a miniature version of the athlete as emblem reveal that the youth is participating in a hoplitodromos, a discipline documented both for Olympia and for Delphi. Side B shows a bearded man in a himation whose forked staff identifies him as a referee. Clay. H. 42.5 cm. Attic, 480-470 B.C. Formerly priv. coll. N.Z., New York, acquired from N. Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Geneva, in 1988. Cahn AG Malzgasse 23 4052 Basel Switzerland T +41 61 271 67 55 mail@cahn.ch cahn.ch 2018
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