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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT HOMPE
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE NECK-AMPHORA
Details
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE NECK-AMPHORA
Attributed to the Red-Line Painter
CIRCA LATE 6TH CENTURY B.C.
The A-side with a warrior with drawn sword, persuing a woman, to the right, a second woman fleeing to the left (Perseus with Maenads?), the B- side with a warrior with drawn sword persuing a woman, vines in the field, lotus-palmette chain on the neck, vertical lines on the shoulders, rays above the foot below a band of lotus buds, a quatrefoil of palmettes, lotus buds and spiraling tendrils below each handle, added red fillets where the body joins the foot and the neck, details in added red and white, intact
12 in. (30.4 cm.) high
Attributed to the Red-Line Painter
CIRCA LATE 6TH CENTURY B.C.
The A-side with a warrior with drawn sword, persuing a woman, to the right, a second woman fleeing to the left (Perseus with Maenads?), the B- side with a warrior with drawn sword persuing a woman, vines in the field, lotus-palmette chain on the neck, vertical lines on the shoulders, rays above the foot below a band of lotus buds, a quatrefoil of palmettes, lotus buds and spiraling tendrils below each handle, added red fillets where the body joins the foot and the neck, details in added red and white, intact
12 in. (30.4 cm.) high
Provenance
San Simeon, Hearst Collection, #119 in white ink on the rim, #57 on a red label on the foot, #12281 in pencil below the foot
Parke-Bernet, New York, 1963, lot 57
Parke-Bernet, New York, 1963, lot 57
Literature
Beazeley, J.D., Attic Balck-Figure Vase-Painters, p. 605.