ATTRIBUTED TO THE PRIAM PAINTER, CIRCA 520-510 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PRIAM PAINTER, CIRCA 520-510 B.C.
19 ¾ in. (50.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Auktion I, Ars Antiqua AG, Lucerne, 2 May 1959, lot 104.
Ian Woodner (1903-1990), New York.
Acquired by the current owner from the above.

Literature

J. D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 146, no. 8bis.
D. Woysch-Méautis, La représentation des animaux et des êtres fabuleux sur les monuments funéraires grecs de l’époque archaiques à la fin de la IVe siècle av. J.C., Lausanne, 1982, p. 75, fig. 35 B.
T. H. Carpenter, Beazley Addenda, Oxford, 1989, p. 90, no. 331.8bis.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 351079.

Lot Essay

According to J. Boardman (Athenian Black Figure Vases, p. 112), "The Priam Painter is an important and prolific artist, in some ways linking the Antimenes Painter and the Leagros Group. His work is imaginative, for although his interest lies in few themes he treats them in each instance with originality of detail and composition." One of his favorite subjects was a chariot scene with Athena and Herakles, as seen here on one side, and another was Apollo playing his kithara before an assembly of gods, as seen here on the other side.

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