AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE NECK AMPHORA, attributed to the Amasis Painter, circa 550 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE NECK AMPHORA, attributed to the Amasis Painter, circa 550 B.C.

Neck A and B: Dionysos presenting a drinking horn to Ariadne wearing decorated peplos with himation over her head and body, on either side dancing ithyphallic satyrs, added red and white detail

Side A: Warrior receiving his spear and helmet from a youth behind whom stands a female holding a spear and shield decorated with the foreport of a lion and a youth wearing fillet and chlamys, holding a spear in his right hand, a dog by his side. At the left an armed warrior, and before him a naked youth, wearing fillet and holding a spear, his right hand lowered, palm turned out. Added red and white detail

Side B: Warrior greaving whilst a youth hands him his spear and Corinthian helmet. Behind the youth stands a female holding a spear and shield with a device of a spread-winged swan. Behind her a youth, wearing fillet, chiton and himation, holding a spear. On the left, behind the warrior stands a youth with upraised arms, and another standing man holding a spear. Added red and white detail

Black dipinto beneath the foot and graffito

Condition: mended from several fragments, no major pieces missing. Overpainting at the breaks and third figure from the left on side A. Cleaned since 1980

15¼in. (39cm.) high

Lot Essay

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, New York, 4, pls. 7.2-4, 8; J. D. Beazely, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters, Oxford, 1956, 152, no. 23 (Amasis Painter), 687; J. D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, 63; J. D. Beazley, 'Notes on the Vases at Castle Ashby' in BSR, xi, 1929, 1-29, pls. 1-11; S. Karouzou, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: Athenische Abteilung lvi, 1931, 103 f.; S. Karouzou, The Amasis Painter, 1956, 2-5, 31, no. 21, pls. 2.2, 20.1; D. von Bothmer, Antike Kunst iii, 1960, 79 f.; H. Mommsen, Der Affecter, 1975, 10 f., 26, 30, 46, pls. 130, 134, Beil. U; The Castle Ashby Vases, Christie's sale catalogue, 2 July 1980, lot 96; D. von Bothmer, exhibition catalogue, The Amasis Painter and his World, New York and London 1985, figs. 56a and b

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