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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARGARET AND ROBERT WILLSON
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
RECALLING THE EUPHILETOS PAINTER, CIRCA 520 B.C.
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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
RECALLING THE EUPHILETOS PAINTER, CIRCA 520 B.C.
One side with Dionysos between two maenads and two nude satyrs, the god in the center facing right, wearing a white chiton and a striped himation, a wreath in his hair, holding a rhyton, the maenads antithetically posed, raised up on one leg and gesticulating with their arms, each wearing a chiton and a short himation, vines in the field; the other side with two warriors in combat between two draped onlookers, the warriors each armed with greaves, a corselet, a crested Corinthian helmet and a circular shield, that to the right with a human leg as the blazon, a baldric over his shoulders and a spear in one raised hand; details in added white and red; bands of key and lotus bud chain encircling below, red and black tongues on the shoulders, rays above the foot, lotus palmette chain on the neck, lotus bud and palmette complexes below the triple-reeded handles, the body with pairs of drilled holes from an ancient repair; a graffito on the underside of the foot
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high
RECALLING THE EUPHILETOS PAINTER, CIRCA 520 B.C.
One side with Dionysos between two maenads and two nude satyrs, the god in the center facing right, wearing a white chiton and a striped himation, a wreath in his hair, holding a rhyton, the maenads antithetically posed, raised up on one leg and gesticulating with their arms, each wearing a chiton and a short himation, vines in the field; the other side with two warriors in combat between two draped onlookers, the warriors each armed with greaves, a corselet, a crested Corinthian helmet and a circular shield, that to the right with a human leg as the blazon, a baldric over his shoulders and a spear in one raised hand; details in added white and red; bands of key and lotus bud chain encircling below, red and black tongues on the shoulders, rays above the foot, lotus palmette chain on the neck, lotus bud and palmette complexes below the triple-reeded handles, the body with pairs of drilled holes from an ancient repair; a graffito on the underside of the foot
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high
Provenance
with H.A.C. Kunst der Antike, Basel, 1989.
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