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THE PROPERTY OF A SWISS COLLECTOR
A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE CASSANDRA PAINTER, ANDROMEDA SUB-GROUP CIRCA 320 B.C.
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A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE CASSANDRA PAINTER, ANDROMEDA SUB-GROUP
CIRCA 320 B.C.
With two winged griffins attacking a warrior, perhaps an Arimasp, and his horse, one griffin standing atop the haunches of the horse and gnashing its beak into his back, the other griffin pouncing toward the warrior who turns back at his aggressor, wielding two spears and clad in a pilos helmet, shoes, and a mantle pinned at his chest; a band of wave below the scene, laurel on the shoulders, palmettes on the neck framed below by dotted ovolo and above by wave, dotted ovolo on the rim, a palmette complex below the handles, the griffin bodies and other details in added white
12 1/16 in. (30.6 cm.) high
ATTRIBUTED TO THE CASSANDRA PAINTER, ANDROMEDA SUB-GROUP
CIRCA 320 B.C.
With two winged griffins attacking a warrior, perhaps an Arimasp, and his horse, one griffin standing atop the haunches of the horse and gnashing its beak into his back, the other griffin pouncing toward the warrior who turns back at his aggressor, wielding two spears and clad in a pilos helmet, shoes, and a mantle pinned at his chest; a band of wave below the scene, laurel on the shoulders, palmettes on the neck framed below by dotted ovolo and above by wave, dotted ovolo on the rim, a palmette complex below the handles, the griffin bodies and other details in added white
12 1/16 in. (30.6 cm.) high
Provenance
with Donati Arte Classica, Lugano, circa 1980.
Literature
A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily, Third Supplement (Consolidated), London, 1983, no. IV, 11b.