AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED NOLAN AMPHORA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE ALKIMACHOS PAINTER, CIRCA 500-450 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED NOLAN AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE ALKIMACHOS PAINTER, CIRCA 500-450 B.C.
The obverse with a frontally facing nude athlete standing with his arms crossed in front of his chest and his hands on his shoulders, head turned in profile to his right and angled slightly down, his hair tied with a fillet in added red, a stele to his left with chlamys draped over the top and a staff leaning by the side, a sponge and strigil suspended above; the reverse with draped youth facing right, his left arm outstretched in front leaning on his staff, his hair tied with a fillet in added red, both scenes with a band of key as the groundline
14 in. (35.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Private collection, Lisbon, Portugal, acquired early 20th Century; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
M.-H. Rocha Pereira, Noticia sobre vasos gregos existentes em Portugal, Coimbra, 1956-1959, Part III, figs 16-17.
M.-H. Rocha Pereira, Greek Vases in Portugal, Coimbra, 1962, pl. 24-25.
J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters, Oxford, 1963, p. 529, no. 11.
Beazley Archive Database no. 205983.

For his works in general cf. J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters, Oxford, 1963, pp. 529-533. The Alkimachos painter was named after kalos names on two Nolan amphorae in Munich (2325) and the British Museum (E318). Influenced by the Pan Painter, he decorated several vase shapes but most prolifically small amphorae such as the Nolan above.

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