AN ATTIC BLACK FIGURE AMPHORA AND LID

MANNER OF THE TALEIDES PAINTER CIRCA 540 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK FIGURE AMPHORA AND LID
Manner of the Taleides Painter
circa 540 b.c.
One side with a rider, perhaps Hephaistos, upon an ithyphallic mule facing right, a revelling maenad and satyr to the left and right, the satyr on the left grasping its haunches and penetrating the mule from behind, the satyr on the right aroused, his arms open, with a leg-shaped aryballos hanging from the mule's phallus, psuedo-inscriptions in the field; the other side with Dionysus between two satyrs and two maenads, pseudo-inscriptions in the field, details in added red, graffiti on the underside of the foot, each scene with a lotus-bud chain above, with rays above the foot, the slightly domed lid with a conical finial
13 in. (34.3 cm) high including the lid

Provenance

Bruce McAlpine

Literature

Henrichs, "Myth Visualized: Dionysos and His Circle in Sixth-Century Attic Vase Painting," Papers on the Amasis Painter and His World, p. 115, note 19.

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This attribution is based upon the rendering of the women's eyes which are similar to the large, round eyes of the males. This, together with the pointed noses, is typical of works attributed to the Taleides Painter, who is also associated with the Amasis Painter. See for example his lekythos which is signed by Amasis as potter (appendix 1, p. 229 in Von Bothmer, The Amasis Painter and His World).

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