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Lot Essay
The body of this large oinochoe is decorated with a band of animals and monsters, centered at the front by a siren flanked by seated sphinxes, including three lions, two panthers, a goat, a stag, and a bull, with rosettes in the field. There is a band of rays encircling the base and a triple band of dots above the main frieze. Black and yellow tongues descend from the neck, with dot rosettes above, below, and on the mouth, with details rendered in added white, red and yellow.
The Painter of Vatican 73, named after an olpe in the Vatican Museums, is considered one of the finest Corinthian vase-painters. According to C.W. Neeft (op. cit, p. 30), the artist overcame the “initial clumsiness of black-figure drawing” and “a subtle balance has been reached between animals and filling ornaments, between silhouette and details, between black and added red. These characteristics combine to yield a confident, clean, graceful style that can at once be grasped and appreciated.” For a similar example by the artist, see the oinochoe in the Toledo Museum of Art (inv. no. 1963.23A-B, no. 13 in D.A. Amyx, op. cit.).
The Painter of Vatican 73, named after an olpe in the Vatican Museums, is considered one of the finest Corinthian vase-painters. According to C.W. Neeft (op. cit, p. 30), the artist overcame the “initial clumsiness of black-figure drawing” and “a subtle balance has been reached between animals and filling ornaments, between silhouette and details, between black and added red. These characteristics combine to yield a confident, clean, graceful style that can at once be grasped and appreciated.” For a similar example by the artist, see the oinochoe in the Toledo Museum of Art (inv. no. 1963.23A-B, no. 13 in D.A. Amyx, op. cit.).