AN ETRUSCO-CORINTHIAN BLACK-FIGURED OLPE
AN ETRUSCO-CORINTHIAN BLACK-FIGURED OLPE
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AN ETRUSCO-CORINTHIAN BLACK-FIGURED OLPE

ATTRIBUTED TO THE GRUPPO DELLE PISSIDI, CIRCA 575-550 B.C.

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AN ETRUSCO-CORINTHIAN BLACK-FIGURED OLPE
ATTRIBUTED TO THE GRUPPO DELLE PISSIDI, CIRCA 575-550 B.C.
18 ½ in. (46.9 cm.) high
Provenance
with Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York.
Seattle Art Museum acquired from the above, 1946 (Acc. no. 46.62); deaccessioned in 1966.
with J.J. Klejman (1906-1995), New York.
Private Collection, New York, acquired from the above, 1967.
Property from a New York Private Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby’s, New York, 6 June 2006, lot 2.
Private Collection, New York, acquired from the above; thence by descent.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2025.
Literature
Handbook: Seattle Art Museum, Selected Works from the Permanent Collections, Seattle, 1951, p. 105.
D.A. Amyx, “Some Etrusco-Corinthian Vase-Painters,” in Studi in onore di Luisa Banti, Rome, 1965, p. 5, pl. IV, c.

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Lot Essay

The body is painted with four bands of animals and monsters, all moving to the right, with large rosettes in the field. Additional ornament includes rays above the foot, quatrefoils on the neck and lip, and rosettes on the rotellae, with details in added red. For another olpe also attributed to the Gruppo delle Pissidi, formerly in the William Randolph Hearst Collection and now at the Milwaukee Public Museum, see no. x-8 in D.A. Amyx, "San Simeon Revisited: Corinthian Vases," California Studies in Classical Antiquity, vol. 8.

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