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MANNER OF THE LYSIPPEDES PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
MANNER OF THE LYSIPPEDES PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
One side with a Gigantomachy, with Athena and Herakles driving a quadriga to the right, the goddess wearing a high-crested helmet and a snaky aegis, holding the reins and a spear in her right hand, the horses all rearing, the middle two horses with their heads turned in, a giant falling before them, lunging with his left leg forward, armed in a high-crested Corinthian helmet, a corslet, a shield, greaves and a spear that he thrusts toward the horses; the other side with three standing deities, Dionysos at the center, crowned with a wreath, holding a kantharos in his raised left hand, Hermes to the left, his kerykeion in his right hand, wearing a chlamys, a petasos and winged boots, Athena to the right, armed with her high-crested helmet, two spears, and a circular shield with three dots as the blazon; alternating red and black tongues on the shoulders, double palmette and lotus chain on the neck, lotus-bud chain encircling below, rays above the foot, a quatrefoil of palmettes, lotus buds, and spiralling tendrils below each triple-reeded handle; details in added white and red; graffiti on the underside of the foot
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high
MANNER OF THE LYSIPPEDES PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
One side with a Gigantomachy, with Athena and Herakles driving a quadriga to the right, the goddess wearing a high-crested helmet and a snaky aegis, holding the reins and a spear in her right hand, the horses all rearing, the middle two horses with their heads turned in, a giant falling before them, lunging with his left leg forward, armed in a high-crested Corinthian helmet, a corslet, a shield, greaves and a spear that he thrusts toward the horses; the other side with three standing deities, Dionysos at the center, crowned with a wreath, holding a kantharos in his raised left hand, Hermes to the left, his kerykeion in his right hand, wearing a chlamys, a petasos and winged boots, Athena to the right, armed with her high-crested helmet, two spears, and a circular shield with three dots as the blazon; alternating red and black tongues on the shoulders, double palmette and lotus chain on the neck, lotus-bud chain encircling below, rays above the foot, a quatrefoil of palmettes, lotus buds, and spiralling tendrils below each triple-reeded handle; details in added white and red; graffiti on the underside of the foot
15 in. (38.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Friedrich Steffen (1919-2003), Foundation La Coudre, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel des Ventes, Geneva, 2 June 2008, lot 17.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel des Ventes, Geneva, 2 June 2008, lot 17.
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