CIRCA 510-500 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
CIRCA 510-500 B.C.
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) high

Provenance

with Piero Tozzi, New York.
The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA, acquired from the above, 1953 (Acc. no. A1953.7.1).
The Haggin Museum; Antiquities, Bonhams, London, 25 April 2012, lot 7.

Literature

Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 9028459.

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Lot Essay

On one side, a bearded charioteer drives a quadriga to the right. In the field is the inscription Ho Pais Kalos, “the boy is beautiful.” The other side is centered by a gesticulating maenad between satyrs, both walking away but looking back, with vines in the field.

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