ATTRIBUTED TO THE CIRCLE OF THE ANTIMENES PAINTER CIRCA 520-510 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED HYDRIA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE CIRCLE OF THE ANTIMENES PAINTER
CIRCA 520-510 B.C.
The main panel, framed by a double band of ivy, with the wedding procession of Peleus and Thetis, the couple in a quadriga, the groom controlling the horses with reins and goad in his hands, his veiled bride at his side, facing the couple three standing goddesses, one wearing a radiate diadem, perhaps Hera, behind the quadriga a draped female attendant, another in front standing with raised hands, to the far left the standing figure of Apollo playing a kithara, the shoulder with Herakles wrestling the Nemean lion, the hero's quiver and cloak hanging above, flaked by four figures, to the left a draped female figure carrying a spear, and Herakles' nephew Iolaus carrying the hero's knobbed club on his shoulder, to the right Hermes wearing winged petasos and sandals, and Athena, wearing high-crested helmet, peplos and aegis, bands of tongues above, rays around the foot, details in added red and white
20 in. (50.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 July 1974, lot 119.
Kelts collection, La Jolla, California.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 June 2012, lot 62.

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Lot Essay

For similar cf. E. D. Reeder, Pandora: Women in Classical Greece, Princeton, 1995, p. 63, fig. 1, with the accompanying gods identified by inscription.

Wedding scenes became increasingly popular on Attic black-figured vases from the 6th Century B.C., having first appeared almost a century before. Typically the scenes depict the chariot procession from the bride's father's house to the groom's.

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