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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EMILE FOLTZER, SWITZERLAND
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED EYE-AMPHORA
MANNER OF THE ANTIMENES PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
Details
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED EYE-AMPHORA
MANNER OF THE ANTIMENES PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
The shoulders of each side with Dionysos seated between large eyes, the bearded god depicted in profile to the right but looking back, enveloped in a striped himation, crowned with a wreath of ivy, his right arm bent, holding a long undulating ivy vine in each hand, the eyes with articulated irises and pupils, the elongated curving brows tapering at both ends, vines in the field; tongues above the scene, a reserved band high on the body, rays above the foot, palmette-lotus chain on the neck, with scrolling palmettes flanking the triple-reeded handles, details in added red and white, dipinti and graffiti on the underside of the foot
16 5/8 in. (42.2 cm.) high
MANNER OF THE ANTIMENES PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
The shoulders of each side with Dionysos seated between large eyes, the bearded god depicted in profile to the right but looking back, enveloped in a striped himation, crowned with a wreath of ivy, his right arm bent, holding a long undulating ivy vine in each hand, the eyes with articulated irises and pupils, the elongated curving brows tapering at both ends, vines in the field; tongues above the scene, a reserved band high on the body, rays above the foot, palmette-lotus chain on the neck, with scrolling palmettes flanking the triple-reeded handles, details in added red and white, dipinti and graffiti on the underside of the foot
16 5/8 in. (42.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Emile Foltzer (d. 1982), Switzerland, acquired in the 1960s-1970s; thence by descent.
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