ATTRIBUTED TO THE DINOS PAINTER, CIRCA 430-420 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED NECK AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE DINOS PAINTER, CIRCA 430-420 B.C.
The obverse with a departure scene centered by a youth, his body frontal, his head turned to the left, nude but for a chlamys draped over his left shoulder, across his back and over his right arm, a petasos hanging behind, a sheathed sword suspended on a baldric over his right shoulder, a wreath in his hair, holding a spear in his left hand, extending his right arm and clasping hands with a bearded man standing before him, wearing a himation over his left shoulder, leaning on a staff, a wreath in his hair, a woman standing to the right, wearing a chiton, pouring an offering from a phiale in her right hand, an oinochoe in her lowered left, a fillet in her hair; the reverse with three draped youths; tongues on the shoulders, a palmette and tendrils on the neck, ovolo on the rim, a band of meander with saltire squares and dotted crossed squares encircling below, adorsed palmettes and tendrils below the twisted handles; details in added red
17¾ in. (45 cm.) high

Provenance

with Giovanni Messina, Montreal, 1980s.

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Lot Essay

The Dinos Painter takes his name from a dinos in Berlin depicting Dionysos with satyrs and maenads. Beazley classified him as one of the younger members of the Polygnotan Group (pp. 1143, and 1151-1155 in Attic Red-figure Vase-painters). The present vase is the only twisted-handle amphora attributed to him to date, although the shape was certainly popular with Polygnotos and his many followers. For a recent discussion of the painter see Matheson, Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens, which includes an updated list of his known works.

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