Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1981, I, no. 103; and Noah's Ark, 1997, no. 6.
This amphora is unique among Greek black-figure vases in having no myth or human figures, but teeming instead with the variety of life in the surrounding sea. In a teasing moment, the vase's painter posed the crab with claws ready to grab at the feet of one of the birds. The bird got away, of course.
Animals, 1981, I, no. 103; and Noah's Ark, 1997, no. 6.
This amphora is unique among Greek black-figure vases in having no myth or human figures, but teeming instead with the variety of life in the surrounding sea. In a teasing moment, the vase's painter posed the crab with claws ready to grab at the feet of one of the birds. The bird got away, of course.