ATTRIBUTED TO THE DOT-BAND CLASS, CIRCA 500 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE DOT-BAND CLASS, CIRCA 500 B.C.
12 ¼ in. (31.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928), Boston.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acquired from the above, 1912 (Accession no. 12.905).
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 2001, lot 39.

Literature

H. Hoffmann, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol. 1, Boston, 1973, pp. 37-38, pl. 51.
S. McNally, “The Maenad in Early Greek Art,” Arethusa 11, nos. 1 and 2, 1978, pp. 113-115, figs. 5 and 6.
G.M. Hedreen, Silens in Attic Black-figure Vase-painting, Ann Arbor, 1992, p. 152, n. 125.
F. Wolsky, ed., Passionate Acts in Greek Art and Myth, Boston, 1993, pp. 12-13.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 594.

Exhibited

Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Passionate Acts in Greek Art and Myth, 19 November 1993-13 March 1994.

Sale room notice

Please note the additional publication: S. McNally, “The Maenad in Early Greek Art,” Arethusa 11, nos. 1 and 2, 1978, pp. 113-115, figs. 5 and 6.

Lot Essay

Edward Perry Warren was an important Boston-born collector of antiquities. Many of his numerous donations to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston were of an erotic nature, chosen deliberately to rattle the more conservative ethos of Boston socialites. This present vase, with three excited satyrs and a maenad, is representative of Warren's taste.

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