Lot 102
102
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)
PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)

ATTRIBUTED TO GROUP E, CIRCA 550-540 B.C.

Details
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)
ATTRIBUTED TO GROUP E, CIRCA 550-540 B.C.
One side with Herakles fighting the three-bodied warrior Geryon, the dying herdsman Eurytion collapsing on the ground between them, the hero to the left wielding his club in his raised right hand, wearing a short chiton, a baldric diagonally over his shoulder, and the lionskin knotted at his chest, the lion's head hanging between his legs, Geryon armed with greaves, crested Corinthian helmets, spears and shields, one with a vine leaf as the device; the other side with Dionysos and Ariadne, the god wearing a white chiton beneath a red and black himation, a wreath in his hair, holding a sprig of ivy in his right hand, a rhyton in his left, Ariadne standing before him, wearing a peplos and a himation patterned with x's over her head as a veil, her right hand extended towards the rhyton, with an ithyphallic satyr looking on from the right, and two others standing to the left; with rays above the foot, palmette chain above each scene, details in added red and white, including thin bands on the neck, body and foot; together with a lid with a central knob finial
16 7/8 in. (42.8 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Acquired by the current owner's family in France in the late 19th-early 20th century.

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Lot Essay

Group E is the name Beazley (Attic Black Figure Vase Painters, p. 133) gave "to a large and compact group, which is very closely related to the work of the painter Exekias, though earlier" and is "the soil from which the art of Exekias springs." He thought most of the vases to be by a single artist, who preferred mythological scenes. For another amphora attributed to Group E with Herakles fighting Geryon, now in the Louvre, see no. 96 in Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases.

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