A CORINTHIAN BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE AMPERSAND PAINTER, CIRCA 625-600 B.C.

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A CORINTHIAN BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE AMPERSAND PAINTER, CIRCA 625-600 B.C.
The shoulder frieze with standing siren flanked by two swans, grazing goat, panther and bird, rosettes and dots in field, horizontal bands, two dotted, below, the central frieze with large stylised floral motif flanked by panthers, a pair of grazing goats and two further panthers, rosettes and dots in the field, broad band below, rays on foot, concentric circles underneath, details added red
8 2/3 in. (22 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, 13 December, 1969.
Private collection, Germany.

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Lot Essay

The Ampersand Painter was a comtemporary of the more prolific Dodwell Painter, both thought to have worked out of the same workshop, characterised by their animal friezes. His trademarks include small, compact feline faces with staring eyes, grazing goats and dotted floral stems.

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