AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE PSYKTER-AMPHORA H. 31 cm.... Lot 53

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE PSYKTER-AMPHORA H. 31 cm. Clay, black glaze, added white and grey-purple colour. Attic, 2nd half 6th cent. B.C. The amphora has a tall foot with slightly drawn-in wall and an almost spherical body; the foot and bottom of the body are glazed; picture fields bordered below by a reserved ring and above by a tongue frieze. A profiled ring forms the transition to the neck. A: Three warriors bidding farewell. At left is a hoplite with greaves, a shield with three white spheres, breastplate with robe, Corinthian helmet with high crest; he turns towards a woman facing left and wearing a peplos decorated with a regularly drawn chequerboard pattern. In front of them, a bearded charioteer in a long chiton stands in a right-facing chariot drawn by four horses. Behind the horses, a warrior with equipment similar to the hoplite?s bids farewell to a grey-haired old man with a wreath, a high, receding hairline and a white, wedge-shaped beard. This warrior has a helmet with a low crest and a shield showing a bird in flight. At the old man?s back, the third warrior stands facing right; he turns to a man in a chiton and mantle whose face is obscured by the horses? heads. Standing behind this man is a woman wearing a peplos. In front of the horses, a nude boy with a cap (?) stands to right. The neck frieze shows four nude, bearded satyrs dancing around a bearded man in a chiton who faces right and wears a mantle draped over his left arm and lower body. B: Dionysos and a woman. An ivy-wreathed, bearded Dionysos wearing chiton and mantle faces right, in his lowered left hand a long ivy twig touching the ground while his raised right hand holds a black drinking horn. Opposite him is a woman wearing a grey-purple peplos and a long, black veil which she lifts with her right hand while her left is held in front of her body. The two figures are framed by two pairs of dancing, bearded satyrs, some of them pot-bellied; the left pair is moving towards the centre of the pict