Details
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE NECK-AMPHORA
assigned by beazley to the class of neck-amphorae with pictures on the shoulder
circa 525-510 b.c.
The shoulder panel on one side with eyes and nose at center, thin undulating brows above, with Dionysus seated to the left, a rhyton in his left hand, vines in his right hand, and a satyr running to the right, looking back over his shoulder; the other side similar, with Dionysus holding the stem of a kantharos in his right hand, vines in his left; a band of red and black tongue above each side, a reserve band below each panel, with a double palmette frieze on the neck, rays above the foot, a graffito on the underside of the foot
15.3/8 in. (39 cm) high
Provenance
A. Vogell, Karlsruhe
Kevorkian Foundation, New York
Art of the Near East and the Orient, Classical Antiquities, Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 25-26 February 1966, lot 232.
Literature
Vogell, Griechische Altertmer aus dem Besitze des Herrn A. Vogell, Karlsruhe, Cassel 26-30 May 1908, pl. 2,9.
Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase Painters, p. 276, no. 9.
