AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)

ATTRIBUTED TO THE SWING PAINTER, CIRCA 540-520 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED AMPHORA (TYPE B)
ATTRIBUTED TO THE SWING PAINTER, CIRCA 540-520 B.C.
The obverse with Dionysos standing between two nude satyrs and two maenads, the god wearing a striped himation, a wreath of ivy in his hair, holding a rhyton in his left hand, the maenads each wearing a red and black chiton, the tail of the satyr to the left curled into a loop; lotus-bud chain above; the reverse with a quadriga scene, the driver standing in the box, holding the reins, a female standing beside the horses facing right, supporting a folded textile on her head with her raised left hand, a mantled youth standing before her, another mantled youth standing in front of the team, a staff in his hand; lotus-bud chain above; rays above the foot, details in added white and red, a dipinto on the underside of the foot
17 in. (43.1 cm.) high

Provenance

with Gianni Loreto, Ascona, 1998.

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Lot Essay

For a satyr with a similar looped tail compare the Swing Painter's neck-amphora in Tarquinia, no. 100 in E. Böhr, Der Schaukemaler. For a woman carrying a similar folded textile on her head on a hydria by the same painter see no. U15, op. cit.

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