Details
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED BAND-CUP
CIRCA 530 B.C.
Each side depicting an Amazonomachy, one side with four Amazons in combat with six Greek warriors, each Amazon in white wearing a short chiton and crested helmet, each Greek wearing a crested Corinthian helmet and greaves, the goddess Athena advancing on the scene from the right, wearing a long chiton and a crested helmet, each of the combatants holding a shield and wielding a spear; the other side with a similar combat scene between four Amazons and five Greeks; a palmette on either side of the handles; details in added red and white; the reserved tondo centered by a dotted circle
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) wide; 4¾ in. (12.1 cm.) high
Provenance
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, 1990 (Kunst der Antike, Katalog 8, no. 192).
J.L. Theodor, Brussels.
J.L. Theodor Collection of Athenian Black-figure Vases; Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1998, lot 78.
Literature
H.A.G. Brijder, "A Band-cup by the Phrynos Painter in Amsterdam," in M. Gnade, ed., Stips Votiva. Papers Presented to C.M. Stibbe, Amsterdam, 1991, no. 5, p. 23.
P. Heesen, The J.L. Theodor Collection of Attic Black-Figure Vases, Allard Pierson Series, vol. 10, Amsterdam, 1996, no. 42.
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