Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE NOLAN AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE BERLIN PAINTER, CIRCA 470 B.C.
Side A: figure of Dionysos standing frontally, wearing a full-length chiton and himation draped over his left shoulder, holding thyrsos in his left hand, kantharos in his right, his head in profile to the right, hair dressed with a wreath and falling in three strands over right shoulder
Side B: a fleeing maenad, advancing to the right, looking back over right shoulder, hair bound in a fillet tied at the back, her himation falling in thick folds over an ankle-length chiton, holding thyrsos in left hand, oinochoe in right, on a meander groundline
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Formerly in the Earl of Sligo collection, Westport, Ireland;
Private collection, Scarsdale, New York; sold Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, Switzerland, auction 18, 29 November 1958, lot 118, pl. 38.
Literature
J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, vol. II, Oxford, 1963, p. 203, no. 91.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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