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NEAR THE GELA PAINTER, CIRCA 510-490 B.C.
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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED WHITE-GROUND ALABASTRON
NEAR THE GELA PAINTER, CIRCA 510-490 B.C.
Centered by a draped maenad playing an aulos before a voluted altar, kale in the field behind her, with an ecstatic dancing maenad on either side, each wearing a chiton with her extended arms concealed in "wing-sleeves," a band of double dots between thin and broad bands below, larger dots and vertical tongues between thin and broad bands above
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high
NEAR THE GELA PAINTER, CIRCA 510-490 B.C.
Centered by a draped maenad playing an aulos before a voluted altar, kale in the field behind her, with an ecstatic dancing maenad on either side, each wearing a chiton with her extended arms concealed in "wing-sleeves," a band of double dots between thin and broad bands below, larger dots and vertical tongues between thin and broad bands above
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high
Provenance
London Art Market, early 1970s.
H. Humbel, Zurich, early 1990s.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2002 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XIV, no. 95).
H. Humbel, Zurich, early 1990s.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2002 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XIV, no. 95).