ATTRIBUTED TO THE ATHENA PAINTER, CIRCA 490-480 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE ATHENA PAINTER, CIRCA 490-480 B.C.
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm) high

Provenance

Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, Second Marquess of Northampton (1790-1851), Castle Ashby, and thence by descent.
The Castle Ashby Vases; Christie's, London, 2 July 1980, lot 75.
Fine Antiquities, Christie's London, 6 June 1989, lot 490.
Fine Antiquities, Christie's London, 11 July 1990, lot 161.
Private collection, Geneva.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
J. Boardman and C.M. Robertson, CVA (Great Britain 15), Castle Ashby, Northampton (Oxford, 1979) 14, no. 26, pl. 23, 3-4.
Beazley Pottery Database no: 2353.

This vase depicts a scene from a centauromachy, showing a hoplite soldier on one knee, thrusting the point of his spear into his opponent's mid-section. The centaur, rearing up on hind legs and armed with a large fir tree branch, takes hold of the hoplite by his helmet's high crest. Five nonsense letters are scattered in upper field. For a similar lekythos by the Athena Painter, with the same subject, see the white-ground example in the Museo Nacional de Belles Artes, Havana, inv. no 141 (J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 523, no. 7, Beazley Pottery Database no: 330755).

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