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THE PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTOR
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
CIRCA 510-500 B.C.
Details
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
CIRCA 510-500 B.C.
One side with three gods, Apollo in the center facing right, clad in a long chiton and himation, playing a kithera, his long hair tied in a krobylos, Dionysos standing before him, clad in a chiton and himation, a wreath of ivy in his hair, holding a grape vine in his left hand, and a kantharos in his right, Hermes to the left, clad in a chiton, himation, boots and a petasos, holding his kerykeion in his left hand; the other side with two horsemen moving to the right, each wearing a Thracian cloak, the first with a petasos, each holding the reigns in his left hand, two spears in his right, two dogs below; a band of lotus bud chain encircling below, rays above the foot, alternating red and black tongues on the shoulders, lotus palmette chain on the neck, lotus bud and palmette complexes below the triple-reeded handles, details in added white and red, graffiti on the underside of the foot
15 3/8 in. (38.1 cm.) high
CIRCA 510-500 B.C.
One side with three gods, Apollo in the center facing right, clad in a long chiton and himation, playing a kithera, his long hair tied in a krobylos, Dionysos standing before him, clad in a chiton and himation, a wreath of ivy in his hair, holding a grape vine in his left hand, and a kantharos in his right, Hermes to the left, clad in a chiton, himation, boots and a petasos, holding his kerykeion in his left hand; the other side with two horsemen moving to the right, each wearing a Thracian cloak, the first with a petasos, each holding the reigns in his left hand, two spears in his right, two dogs below; a band of lotus bud chain encircling below, rays above the foot, alternating red and black tongues on the shoulders, lotus palmette chain on the neck, lotus bud and palmette complexes below the triple-reeded handles, details in added white and red, graffiti on the underside of the foot
15 3/8 in. (38.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, (1790-1851), Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire.
The Castle Ashby Vases; Christie's, London, 2 July 1980, lot 93.
Private Collection, Texas, 1980-1988.
A Gentleman; Christie's, London, 13 December 1988, lot 375.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1988-9.
The Castle Ashby Vases; Christie's, London, 2 July 1980, lot 93.
Private Collection, Texas, 1980-1988.
A Gentleman; Christie's, London, 13 December 1988, lot 375.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1988-9.
Literature
J. Boardman and M. Robertson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain, Castle Ashby, Northampton, Oxford, 1979, no. 7, pls. 11.3-4, 13.1-2.
Beazley Archive no. 29.
Beazley Archive no. 29.
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