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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)
Lot 33PROPERTY FROM A MANHATTAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)

ATTRIBUTED TO THE SWING PAINTER, CIRCA 540-520 B.C.

Closed31 October 2018

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)
ATTRIBUTED TO THE SWING PAINTER, CIRCA 540-520 B.C.
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high

Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 1988, lot 77.
Private Collection, U.S.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 15 December 1992, lot 83.

Specialist note

For similar dancing revelers as seen on one side of the amphora presented here, compare pls. 68B and 69B in E. Böhr, Der Schaukelmaler, especially the latter for the presence of the unusual pointed cap on the left-most figure. Similar combats as found on the other side are frequent on the Swing Painter's vases.