MANNER OF THE ANTIMENES PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED HYDRIA
MANNER OF THE ANTIMENES PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
16 7/8 in. (42.8 cm.) high

Provenance

with Leonard Kaplan (1922-2008), Ancient Arts Gallery, Laguna Beach.
Sid and Idelle Port, Santa Monica, acquired from the above by the early 1980s.
Property of Professor and Mrs. Sid Port; Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 12 June 2002, lot 17.

Literature

Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 22474.

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Lot Essay

The main panel depicts the wedding procession of Peleus and Thetis led by Hermes, Dionysos, Apollo, a goddess (perhaps Athena), and a female attendant. The shoulder depicts Theseus slaying the Minotaur, surrounded by five draped onlookers. In the predella, two right-facing lions are confronting two left-facing boars. For a similar hydria in Lyon also attributed to the Manner of the Antimenes Painter, see p. 280, no. 3 in J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters.

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