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.