An Attic black-figure trefoil-lipped oinochoe
Circa 6th Century B.C.
The decoration enlivened with added white and crimson paint, showing a hunting scene set within a frontal panel, with two huntsmen mounted on horses, both wearing a petasos and long rectangular white tunics with two bands of wavy lines, their legs extending forwards, each holding two spears, a hound beneath each horse, a band of linked double-dots flank the panel, with strokes on the shoulder, and a double band of ivy encircling the base of the neck, a crimson line above, the underside of the base with incised graffito of alpha, iota and nu, 10in (25.4cm) high, repaired
Circa 6th Century B.C.
The decoration enlivened with added white and crimson paint, showing a hunting scene set within a frontal panel, with two huntsmen mounted on horses, both wearing a petasos and long rectangular white tunics with two bands of wavy lines, their legs extending forwards, each holding two spears, a hound beneath each horse, a band of linked double-dots flank the panel, with strokes on the shoulder, and a double band of ivy encircling the base of the neck, a crimson line above, the underside of the base with incised graffito of alpha, iota and nu, 10in (25.4cm) high, repaired
Sold for
£7,200
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Acquired at Sotheby's London, December 8th, 1986.
Exhibited:
On loan to the Museum of Mediterranean Antiquities, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, March 1989 - April 2008.
Published:
Sotheby's London, Antiquities, December 8th, 1986, lot 229.
Category: Antiquities
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