AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED NOLAN AMPHORA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE PHIALE PAINTER CIRCA MID 5TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED NOLAN AMPHORA
attributed to the phiale painter
circa mid 5th century b.c.
The obverse with a departure scene, a youthful warrior on the right, his large shield with a horse protome in black as the blazon, a spear angled over his shoulder, holding a crested Corinthian helmet before him, a woman to his left clad in a chiton with a dotted double stripe along the side, extending her right hand to the warrior, a band of meander with saltire squares below; the reverse with a standing youth draped in a mantle, extending his right hand, a band of key below
13¼ in. (33.65 cm) high

Literature

Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, p. 1016, no. 31.

Lot Essay

The Phiale Painter takes his name after the phiale in Boston (no. 146). Beazley (op. cit., p. 1014) called him a "pupil of the Achilles Painter, and, numerically, like him a painter of Nolans and lekythoi. An artist of true charm, and, in his larger works, nobility."

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