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An Apulian red-figure amphora

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3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Apulian red-figure amphora
Attributed to the Patera Painter, circa 340-320 B.C.
The obverse depicting a peplos-clad female, her hair dressed in a sakkos and wearing earrings, necklace and bracelet, carrying a cista in her left hand and a tympanum in her right, striding to the left while pursued by Dionysus, carrying two thrysi and a situla, nude but for a mantle draped around his arm and sandals, a berried wreath in his hair, the reverse with two draped athletes standing beneath a pair of halteres (jumping-weights), one holding a strigil, the other with a staff, meander pattern beneath, palmettes below the handles, rays on the neck and around the base of the handles, a band of laurel leaves above, another on the mouth, details in added red, white and yellow, 47.5cm high

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Provenance:
Private collection, Germany, acquired in the 1970s.
with Frank Sternberg AG, Zurich in June 1992.

The style and figures of this amphora are characteristic of the Patera Painter, including the use of a saltire in square interrupting the meander pattern, clusters of three dots, and the use of vegetation as decoration.

For a column krater attributed to the Patera Painter also decorated with a maenad pursued by Dionysus and a gymnasium scene, see the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acc. no. 60.1171. For another amphora with similarly delineated figures and attributed to the Patera Painter, see the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, acc. no. 79.AE.25.1.

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