MIDDLE CORINTHIAN, CIRCA 600-575 B.C.

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A LARGE CORINTHIAN BLACK-FIGURED OLPE
MIDDLE CORINTHIAN, CIRCA 600-575 B.C.
With two registers of animals low on the body, the lower with a bird, a frontal-faced panther, and a goat all moving left, a frontal-faced panther moving right, a bull moving left and a frontal-faced panther moving right, the upper with a lion and a goat moving left, a lion moving right, a goat moving left, a lion and a stag moving right, both bands filled with dots and rosettes of various sizes in the field, a broad band above of scale pattern, excluding a panel beneath the reeded handle where there is the forepart of a bull in added white, with rays above the foot, alternating red, black and white tongues on the neck, bands of dotted circles above and below, dotted circles on the rotellae and on the rim in between
20 5/8 in. (52.3 cm.) high

Provenance

with N. Koutoulakis, Paris & Geneva, 1960s; thence by descent, late 1980s.

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Lot Essay

The olpe was a popular vase shape during the Early and Middle phases of Corinthian vase production, dating from the late 7th through to the mid 6th century B.C., when it was abandoned in favor of an Athenian type with a trefoil pouring mouth. The example presented here is exceptionally large for the type. For another with the identical arrangement of ornament, seemingly by the same hand and perhaps once forming a pair with the present example, see no. 381 in J. Boardman, Early Greek Vase Painting.

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