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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT CANADIAN COLLECTION
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
CIRCA 530-510 B.C.
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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
CIRCA 530-510 B.C.
One side with Dionysos riding a mule to the right, flanked by two bearded nude satyrs, the god wearing a chlamys, a crown of ivy in his hair, holding a rhyton in his right hand, vines in the field; the other side with Dionysos flanked by two maenads and a satyr, the god clad in a chiton and a himation, holding the stem of a kantharos in his left hand, vines in his right, the maenads both in chitons, all but the satyr with crowns of ivy in their hair; alternating red and black tongues on the shoulders, double palmette and lotus chain on the neck, lotus-bud chain encircling below, rays above the foot, a quatrefoil of palmettes, lotus buds, and spiralling tendrils below each triple-reeded handle, details in added white and red, graffiti on the underside of the foot
15 3/8 in. (39 cm.) high
CIRCA 530-510 B.C.
One side with Dionysos riding a mule to the right, flanked by two bearded nude satyrs, the god wearing a chlamys, a crown of ivy in his hair, holding a rhyton in his right hand, vines in the field; the other side with Dionysos flanked by two maenads and a satyr, the god clad in a chiton and a himation, holding the stem of a kantharos in his left hand, vines in his right, the maenads both in chitons, all but the satyr with crowns of ivy in their hair; alternating red and black tongues on the shoulders, double palmette and lotus chain on the neck, lotus-bud chain encircling below, rays above the foot, a quatrefoil of palmettes, lotus buds, and spiralling tendrils below each triple-reeded handle, details in added white and red, graffiti on the underside of the foot
15 3/8 in. (39 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 November 1997, lot 233.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York, 1999.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York, 1999.
Literature
Beazley Archive Database no. 29222.
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Molly Morse Limmer
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