AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE NECK-AMPHORA, attributed to the Affecter Painter, 530-520 B.C.; lid not belonging and slightly later

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE NECK-AMPHORA, attributed to the Affecter Painter, 530-520 B.C.; lid not belonging and slightly later

Side A: on the left a bearded man (1), wearing a chiton decorated with white beaded circles and white beaded borders, with bordered himation, extends his hands to a bearded nude man (2) who looks back towards him, both hands raised; a wreathed woman (3) with single side plait escaping, wearing peplos with beaded borders and waistband, a decorated himation slipping over her head and body, sandals on her feet, holds out a wreath in her left hand to another bearded man (4); he wears a short bordered chiton over which hangs a white beaded decorated chlamys and walks to the right looking back at her. In front of him stands a bearded man (5) dressed as (1), with right arm raised in welcome, holding a 'wreath' in his left hand

Side B: a standing bearded man (8), similar to (1); another standing man (9), similar to (4); a walking female (10), similar to (3), except for her long hair falling behind her ears and wearing an earring, holds out a wreath to Hermes (11) who is walking to the right looking back over his shoulder; he wears petasos and winged sandals and carries a caduceus, the detailed serpents' mouths agape with protruding forked tongue. The last figure of a bearded man (12) is dressed as (5), with right arm raised and the fingers arched over the palm towards him

Under each handle is a man running to right looking back, nude apart from a chlamys over the upper part of his upraised arms. An alighting bird sits on one of the spirals of the decorated tongue pattern surrounding the handle base. The neck is decorated with a frieze of double palmettes and alternating lotus buds; the lid with six concentric black bands and 'pomegranate' handle. Added red and white.
Graffito on base

Condition: intact

17 7/8in. (45.3cm.) high; 20½in. (52cm.) high including lid

拍品專文

Potted and painted by the Affecter Painter

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Mommsen, Der Affecter; D. von Bothmer and M. Moore, CVA, New York, 4, p. 9 (on Metropolitan Museum 07.286.75) give parallels for appearances of Hermes in similar scenes to the above vase (without mythological interpretaton).

"The patterning of florals is close to that of some East Greek black-figure studios (Clazomenian, the Northampton Group) ... It is a make-believe world, and if the Athenian tradition had not been to put figures on pots the Affecter might have proved an outstanding and original exponent of Archaic art nouveau." Boardman, ABFV, 65, figs. 155-157