AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
THE PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTOR
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE GROUP OF COMPIÈGNE 988, CIRCA 520-500 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE GROUP OF COMPIÈGNE 988, CIRCA 520-500 B.C.
The obverse with The Judgment of Paris, bearded Hermes to the right, moving right and looking back, wearing a dotted chlamys over a short chiton, a petasos and winged boots, a staff in his hands; the three goddesses facing him, Athena at the center wearing an ankle-length peplos, a dotted himation, and a high-crested helmet, an owl in her left hand, a spear in her right, Aphrodite and Hera behind, standing beside each other, each clad in an ankle-length chiton and a dotted himation, one holding a scepter; the reverse with Dionysos between satyrs, the god at the center wearing a white ankle-length chiton and a dotted himation, a kantharos in his raised left hand, grape vines issuing from his right, the satyrs moving toward him, that to the left with a wine skin in his lowered right hand; palmette lotus chain on the neck, alternating red and black tongues on the shoulders, rays above the foot, lotus bud chain above, a quatrefoil of palmettes, lotus buds and tendrils below the handles; details in added red and white, a graffito on the underside of the foot
16 1/8 in. (41 cm.) high
Provenance
E.P Warren, Oxford, (1860-1928).
The Estate of E.P. Warren; Sotheby's, London, 27 May 1929, lot 37.
Albert Gallatin, New York, 1929; thence by descent.
Literature
G.H. Chase and M.Z.P. Philippides, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Cambridge (MA), Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, Cambridge, 1942, p. 86, pl. 37,2a-b.
A. Gallatin, The Pursuit of Happiness, New York, 1950, p. 51.
J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 285, no. 5.
Beazley Archive Database no. 320282.

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