Lot Essay
Beazley Archive Database no. 9028624.
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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 main panel with a departure scene, with a warrior at the center standing in right profile, armed in a crested Corinthian helmet and greaves, a circular shield in his left hand, a spear in his right, identified as DORION by the Greek inscription below, flanked by a mantled bearded man to the left, and a draped female to the right, identified as HIPPOPOLOS by the inscription behind, framed on either side by double rows of alternating red and black ivy leaves; the shoulders with a siren framed by a lion and a panther, the siren and the lion looking back, the panther facing frontal; alternating red and black tongues above; rays above the foot, details in added white and red; the vertical handle with applied knobs at the rim in imitation of the rivets of a metal vessel
9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high
ATTRIBUTED TO THE AINIPYLOS PAINTER, CIRCA 550-540 B.C.
The main panel with a departure scene, with a warrior at the center standing in right profile, armed in a crested Corinthian helmet and greaves, a circular shield in his left hand, a spear in his right, identified as DORION by the Greek inscription below, flanked by a mantled bearded man to the left, and a draped female to the right, identified as HIPPOPOLOS by the inscription behind, framed on either side by double rows of alternating red and black ivy leaves; the shoulders with a siren framed by a lion and a panther, the siren and the lion looking back, the panther facing frontal; alternating red and black tongues above; rays above the foot, details in added white and red; the vertical handle with applied knobs at the rim in imitation of the rivets of a metal vessel
9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired by the current owner, Switzerland, 1980.
Literature
F. Canciani, "Due Vase Antichi Inediti," in Agathos daimon: mythes et cultures: études d'iconographie en l'honneur de Lilly Kahil, Supplement 38, 2000, pp. 88-89, and 91, figs. 1-3.
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