Details
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE NECK AMPHORA ATTRIBUTED TO THE ACHELOOS PAINTER
Side A: a Dionysiac festival, with a naked man carrying a woman on his shoulder, she wears a spotted himation and reaches out to another man in front who wears an ivy-leaf wreath and drinks from a cup held high. Flanked on the other side by a man with a garland who holds a large drinking rhyton, dotted vine tendrils and two nonsense inscriptions in the field, an animal's head hanging above the scene
Side B: a similar scene, with the central naked man carrying a woman on his shoulder who holds clappers in her left hand. Flanked by men on either side, the one on the left naked and holding a drinking rhyton, the one on the right with a cloak draped around him, all wearing ivy-leaf garlands in their hair, dotted vine tendrils and two nonsense inscriptions in the field
Lotus buds and scrolling palmettes under the handles, the neck with double palmettes, tongues on the shoulder, tapering rays rising from the foot and a frieze of interlocking lotus buds above, details in added purple and white
circa 510 B.C.
17 1/8in. (43.5cm.) high
Provenance
Wilfred Hall collection, Tynemouth (formerly on loan at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne); sold Christie's London, 26 March 1953, lot 94
Hagop Kevorkian Foundation; sold Sotheby's London, 18 June 1968, lot 88
