AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE PLATE ATTRIBUTED TO NEAR THE READY PAINTER

550-540 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE PLATE ATTRIBUTED TO NEAR THE READY PAINTER
550-540 B.C.
Obverse: departure of a warrior, an armed hoplite standing in profile to the left, wearing greaves, plumed Corinthian helmet and cloak, holding a circular shield with tripod device, flanked by two bearded draped men wrapped in himations, one holding a spear, the other a staff, on groundline, details incised and in added purple, black glazed border
Reverse: alternating reserved and black glazed concentric circles, black glazed border
Rim pierced twice
10½ in. (26.4 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Formerly in the W. R. Hearst Collection.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
D. Callipolitis-Feytmans, Les plats attiques à figures noires, École française d'Athènes, Paris, 1974, pp. 130 and 328, pl. 41, no. 33; and Mnzen und Medaillen, Basel, Kunstwerke der Antike, XXVI, 5 October 1963, p. 47, pl. 31, no. 95.

Callipolitis-Feytmans suggests that the plate recalls those of the Snake-and-Spots Group.

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