Lot Essay
Beazley included the Group of Faina 75 in his chapter on "Other Pot-Painters" (Attic Black-figure Vase Painters, p. 326) and considered his work "...close to the Euphiletos Painter."
GROUP OF FAINA 75, CIRCA 510 B.C.
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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
GROUP OF FAINA 75, CIRCA 510 B.C.
One side with Herakles battling Amazons, the hero clad in a short chiton and the Nemean lionskin, attacking with a long sword held in his raised right hand, extending his left arm forward behind his main opponent's circular shield, a snake as the device, the Amazon standing before him, wearing a short chiton and high-crested helmet, a scabbard over her shoulder, a spear in her raised left hand, an Amazon on one knee between them, wearing a high-crested helmet and holding a circular shield, three circles as the device, a third Amazon to the left, facing right but looking back, wearing a corselet over a short chiton, and a high-crested helmet, holding a spear and a circular shield, a bucranion as the device; the other side with Dionysos between two maenads, a goat behind him, the god clad in a long chiton and himation, holding grape vines and a rhyton, the maenads each wearing a long chiton, playing krotola; bands of key and lotus bud chain below, red and black tongues above, rays above the foot, lotus-palmette chain on the neck, lotus bud and palmette complexes below the handle, details in added white and red, now mostly lost; the lid with a central knob framed by concentric bands, with a double band of ivy at the rim
19 in. (48.2 cm.) high
GROUP OF FAINA 75, CIRCA 510 B.C.
One side with Herakles battling Amazons, the hero clad in a short chiton and the Nemean lionskin, attacking with a long sword held in his raised right hand, extending his left arm forward behind his main opponent's circular shield, a snake as the device, the Amazon standing before him, wearing a short chiton and high-crested helmet, a scabbard over her shoulder, a spear in her raised left hand, an Amazon on one knee between them, wearing a high-crested helmet and holding a circular shield, three circles as the device, a third Amazon to the left, facing right but looking back, wearing a corselet over a short chiton, and a high-crested helmet, holding a spear and a circular shield, a bucranion as the device; the other side with Dionysos between two maenads, a goat behind him, the god clad in a long chiton and himation, holding grape vines and a rhyton, the maenads each wearing a long chiton, playing krotola; bands of key and lotus bud chain below, red and black tongues above, rays above the foot, lotus-palmette chain on the neck, lotus bud and palmette complexes below the handle, details in added white and red, now mostly lost; the lid with a central knob framed by concentric bands, with a double band of ivy at the rim
19 in. (48.2 cm.) high
Provenance
with Maxburg Galerie Antiken, Munich, 1978.
Swiss Private Collection.
Swiss Private Collection.
Brought to you by
G. Max Bernheimer
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