AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED WHITE-GROUND ALABASTRON

ATTRIBUTED TO THE GROUP OF THE NEGRO ALABASTRA, CIRCA 490-480 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED WHITE-GROUND ALABASTRON
ATTRIBUTED TO THE GROUP OF THE NEGRO ALABASTRA, CIRCA 490-480 B.C.
With standing Ethiopian warrior, head turned to left, wearing long trousers decorated with stripes and dots, long-sleeved belted and fringed tunic and mantle draped over arms, holding bow in left hand and battle-axe in right, with stool and palm tree in field, the base and neck black, bands above and below the scene, two vestigial lug handles on the shoulder, the upper surface of the mouth reserved
6 1/8 in. (15.3 cm.) high

Provenance

with Maxburg Galerie Antiken, Munich, Germany, 1970.
Walsh collection, Germany.

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Lot Essay

Cf. A. D. Fraser, 'The Panoply of the Ethiopian Warrior', American Journal of Archaeology, no. 39, 1936, p. 42, pl. 11a, in which Fraser notes that this is a typical pose for figures in the Negro Alabastra Group.
Cf. A.-M. M'Bow et al, The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire, Harvard, 1976, p. 150 for discussion of the Ethiopian warrior and his significance in Greek art of this period.

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