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Lot Essay
The Swing Painter takes his name from the amphora in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which depicts a young maiden on a swing. As J. Boardman informs (p. 63 in Athenian Black Figure Vases), the Swing Painter "is not a good painter, nor a conscious comedian, although his placid figures with their big heads, fashionably tiny noses, and often clenched fists, bring a smile to our lips."
This amphora is a very fine example of the Swing Painter's work. One side features three aconstists, each holding a javelin, framed by two mantled trainers. The other has two fully armed warriors in combat framed by two others who both turn away, with a bearded man far left wearing a mantle with an unusual vertical battlements pattern. The same pattern is found on a mantled figure on a now-lost vase by the Swing Painter formerly on the Rome market, pl. 3B in E. Böhr, Der Schaukelmaler.
This amphora is a very fine example of the Swing Painter's work. One side features three aconstists, each holding a javelin, framed by two mantled trainers. The other has two fully armed warriors in combat framed by two others who both turn away, with a bearded man far left wearing a mantle with an unusual vertical battlements pattern. The same pattern is found on a mantled figure on a now-lost vase by the Swing Painter formerly on the Rome market, pl. 3B in E. Böhr, Der Schaukelmaler.