DOUBLEEN" AMPHORA WITH BLACK-FIGURE NECK
The body is decorated on side A with a scene of Dionysus between two maenads, and on side B with satyrs and maenads. The neck is decorated with three inverted palmettes; double handles are black-glazed on the outside. The decoration, framed by palmettes, rests on a red line. Under the handles: linked palmettes and lotus flowers. At the bottom of the body: lines of dots and radiating edges. Flat black-glazed foot with circular red line and molded rim. The inner part is reserved and bears two letters ΣΟ (workshop or transporter).
Black-glazed orange clay with white and red highlights.
Greek art, Attica, early 5th c. BC. Attributable to the Painter of Diosphos (c. 495-480 B.C.)/or Class with branches of dots/or entourage of the Painter of the Red Line.
Height. 21 cm.
Visible cracks and restorations; restored in 2000 by G.P. Nadalini. Discovery of an inscription ΣΟ under the foot of the vase.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
M.-H., Delavaud, Du nouveau sur la danse et la musique en Grèce ancienne in Connaissance hellénique, n°156, July 2020.
PROVENANCE.
. Purchased in Cannes, August 16, 2000.
. Sale Bertone Collection, Neuilly-sur-Seine, December 14, 1931.
An export certificate for cultural property dated December 22, 2023 will be issued to the purchaser.
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