Lot Essay
Beazley Archive Database no. 26024.
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ATTRIBUTED TO THE EMPORION PAINTER, CIRCA 510-490 B.C.
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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED WHITE-GROUND ALABASTRON
ATTRIBUTED TO THE EMPORION PAINTER, CIRCA 510-490 B.C.
Centered by a draped maenad playing an aulos before a voluted altar, \KKALE\k in the field behind, flanked by ecstatic dancing maenads, each wearing a chiton with her extended arms concealed in "wing-sleeves;" a band of double dots between narrow and broad bands below, a band of dots and a band of tongues between narrow and broad bands above
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high
ATTRIBUTED TO THE EMPORION PAINTER, CIRCA 510-490 B.C.
Centered by a draped maenad playing an aulos before a voluted altar, \KKALE\k in the field behind, flanked by ecstatic dancing maenads, each wearing a chiton with her extended arms concealed in "wing-sleeves;" a band of double dots between narrow and broad bands below, a band of dots and a band of tongues between narrow and broad bands above
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high
Provenance
with Augustus Ready, London.
with Galerie Arete, Zurich (Liste 11, 1977, p. 9).
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XIV, 2002, no. 95).
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 7 December 2006, lot 79.
with Galerie Arete, Zurich (Liste 11, 1977, p. 9).
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XIV, 2002, no. 95).
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 7 December 2006, lot 79.
Literature
C.H.E. Haspels, Attic Black Figured Lekythoi, Paris, 1936, p. 263, appendix 16, no. 14.
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