Lot Essay
Near the Sisyphus Painter
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THE PROPERTY OF A SOUTHWESTERN COLLECTOR
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED AMPHORA
CIRCA LATE 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED AMPHORA
Circa Late 5th Century B.C.
The obverse with three nude athletes around a laver, the youth to the left standing three-quarter frontal, with a full head of tight curls, his left arm resting at the small of his back, a strigil in his right hand held up above his shoulder, his mantle resting on a stele beside him, to the right of the laver another youth bathes himself, leaning over the laver, his hands in the water, behind him a third youth, a mantle over his left, with his hand on the shoulder of the bathing youth, an aryballos and strigil hanging from his left wrist; the reverse with three draped youths; with a band of meander and crossed squares below the scenes, each side with a band of laurel on the neck above a band of hatching, the obverse with tongue above the shoulder, the reverse with a band of triangles and darts, with angled palmettes enclosed by tendrils below the handles
18 in. (45.7 cm) high
Circa Late 5th Century B.C.
The obverse with three nude athletes around a laver, the youth to the left standing three-quarter frontal, with a full head of tight curls, his left arm resting at the small of his back, a strigil in his right hand held up above his shoulder, his mantle resting on a stele beside him, to the right of the laver another youth bathes himself, leaning over the laver, his hands in the water, behind him a third youth, a mantle over his left, with his hand on the shoulder of the bathing youth, an aryballos and strigil hanging from his left wrist; the reverse with three draped youths; with a band of meander and crossed squares below the scenes, each side with a band of laurel on the neck above a band of hatching, the obverse with tongue above the shoulder, the reverse with a band of triangles and darts, with angled palmettes enclosed by tendrils below the handles
18 in. (45.7 cm) high
Provenance
Purchased in London in the 1960s