A Terracotta Amphora (Jar), Andokides, ca. 530 BCE
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Bidding on A Terracotta Amphora (Jar), Andokides, ca. 530 BCE
Current bid
$90,000Your maximum is confidential. The house never bids it in one go — it raises you by a single increment at a time, only as far as it must to keep you in front.
Bid $102,500 on a lot standing at $90,000 and the lot moves to $92,500 — not to your ceiling. You pay your maximum only if someone pushes you there.
A bid inside the last 2 minutes extends the clock, so nobody wins a lot simply by arriving one second before the end.
A buyer’s premium of 10% applies to the hammer price. At $90,000 that is $9,000, for a total of $99,000 excluding shipping and any applicable tax.
Consigned by
Rafael Ortiz-Bennett
@ortizbennett
4.7 from 96 sales
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Catalogue note
Terracotta. H. 22 5/8 in. (57.5 cm). Made by Andokides, ca. 530 BCE.
No independent ownership history accompanies this lot. What The Metropolitan Museum of Art records of its own acquisition is given under Provenance below, and nothing beyond it is asserted.
Offered under our antiquities terms. The description follows the holding institution's published record, and responsibility for any export or import licence rests with the buyer. Catalogue data for this lot is drawn from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's open-access collections record (CC0 1.0).
Provenance
Not independently established for this sale. The Metropolitan Museum of Art records its own acquisition as: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1963.
Condition
Good
Honest wear throughout. Structurally sound and complete.
Condition reports are the house’s opinion, offered in good faith. Lots are sold as viewed; the absence of a remark does not imply the absence of a fault.
Bidding history12 bids from 6 bidders
- $90,000
G••• L.Leading
Bid
- $87,500
N••• K.
Bid
- $85,000
M••• C.
Bid
- $82,500
P••• R.
Bid
- $80,000
A••• S.
Bid
- $77,500
E••• W.
Automatic bid
- $75,000
E••• W.
Bid
- $72,500
G••• L.
Automatic bid
- $70,000
G••• L.
Bid
- $67,500
N••• K.
Bid
- $65,000
M••• C.
Automatic bid
- $62,000
M••• C.
Bid
Bidders are shown by initial, as they would be by paddle in the room. Bids marked “automatic” were placed by the house on a bidder’s behalf, against a maximum only they can see.
Terms of sale
- Buyer's premium
- 10% of the hammer price, added to your invoice.
- Reserve
- This lot carries a confidential reserve. It will not sell below it.
- Anti-snipe
- A bid in the closing moments extends the clock so the room can answer.
- Settlement
- Funds are held on deposit while you lead, and released the moment you are outbid.
Catalogue record
This lot describes a real object held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose collection data is published for open access. The object is not for sale; it stands in here so the saleroom can be demonstrated against genuine catalogue records rather than invented ones.
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