Lot 88
88
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED OVOID NECK-AMPHORA
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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED OVOID NECK-AMPHORA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF VATICAN 309, CIRCA 560-540 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED OVOID NECK-AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF VATICAN 309, CIRCA 560-540 B.C.
One side with a draped youth standing between a pair of seated sphinxes, their heads turned back, the sickle-shaped wings and tails upraised, two columns of dots in the field; the other side with a pair of confronting lions, each with his head turned back, his open mouth revealing teeth, the curling tail upraised, a dotted rosette below the body; alternating red and black tongues on the shoulders, each side of the neck with a bearded head in profile to the left framed by vertical zigzag lines; red bands on the edge of the foot, below the scenes, on the molded ring at the base of the neck and the interior of the mouth, rays above the foot, details in added red and white, a dipinto on the underside of the foot
13 3/8 in. (34 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 March 1961, lot 149.
with Spink & Son, London.
Alfred E. Mirsky (1900-1974).
Literature
J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 50.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Beazley informs (Attic Black-figure Vase-painters, p. 114) that the Painter of Vatican 309 is one of two companions of the painter Lydos. All three share a single manner for depicting animals, the so-called "Lydan" style, but can be distinguished from each other by the treatment of their human figures.

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