AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED OLPE
MANNER OF THE RED-LINE PAINTER,
CIRCA 500 B.C.
The panel with a satyr facing a maenad, the satyr to the left, the maenad to the right, moving right and looking back, draped in a mantle over a chiton, grape vines in her hands; bands of pomegranate net and meander above, a checker-pattern on the rim, details in added red and white
6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1990, lot 457 (part).
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1991 (One Thousand Years of Ancient Greek Vases, no. 59).
Lot Essay
For an olpe with the same subject and ornament from the Workshop of the Red Line Painter see no. 49 in Stanley, A Generation of Antiquities: The Duke Classical Collection 1964-199.