ATTRIBUTED TO THE AINIPYLOS PAINTER, CIRCA 550-540 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED HYDRIA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE AINIPYLOS PAINTER, CIRCA 550-540 B.C.
The body panel with a departure scene centered by a hoplite, moving right but looking back, nude but for greaves and a crested Corinthian helmet, holding a spear and a circular shield with a star as the blazon, his dog positioned below, flanked by a mantled bearded man to the left, and two to the right, framed on either side by double rows of ivy leaves; the shoulder with three horsemen moving right; rays above the foot, details in added red and white
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high

Provenance

with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, 1981 (Kunst der Antike, Katalog 3, no. 140).
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1984.
with Summa Galleries, mid 1980s.

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Lot Essay

The Ainipylos Painter was identified by Brijder (see "War and Peace on a New Cup by the Ainipylos Painter," pp. 21-28 in Bohr and Martini, eds., Studien zur Mythologie und Vasenmalerei. Festschrift für Konrad Schauenburg zum 65. Geburtstag am 16. April). For the name-vase see no. 35 in Moon, Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections.

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