Lot 25
25
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED LIDDED AMPHORA (TYPE B)
PROPERTY FROM A MANHATTAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED LIDDED AMPHORA (TYPE B)

ATTRIBUTED TO THE EUPHILETOS PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.

Details
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED LIDDED AMPHORA (TYPE B)
ATTRIBUTED TO THE EUPHILETOS PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
17 in. (43.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1983, lot 315.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 10-11 December 1992, lot 225.
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, 1993 (Katalog 10, no. 182).

Lot Essay

The Euphiletos Painter was so-named by Beazley after the 'kalos' name he inscribed on a Panathenaic amphora now in the British Museum. Each side of this amphora depicts a komos, one side with three bearded nude revelers, the other with five, two of whom copulate intercrurally. For a related scene see the amphora in the Cité de la céramique, Sèvres, no. B486 in K.J. Dover, Greek Homosexuality.

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