ATTRIBUTED TO THE BAREISS PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.

Name: AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA AND LID
Brand: ATTRIBUTED TO THE BAREISS PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
Price: 110000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 137,500

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Closed: 16 Jun 2020

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA AND LID

ATTRIBUTED TO THE BAREISS PAINTER, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.

Price Realised USD 137,500

Closed: 16 Jun 2020

Price Realised USD 137,500

Closed: 16 Jun 2020

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13¹⁄₂ in. (34.2 cm.) high

with Gianni Loreto, Ascona, by 1982.
Private Collection, Switzerland.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 16 July 1985, lot 419.

J. Boardman, "Herakles," in LIMC, vol. IV, Zurich and Munich, 1988, p. 818.
K. Hamma, ed., The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, San Bernardino, 1989, pp. 33-34, no. 15, pl. 2.
S. R. Wolf, Herakles beim Gelage: Eine motiv- und bedeutungsgeschichtliche Untersuchung des Bildes in der archaisch-frühklassischen Vasenmalerei, Cologne, 1993, p. 198, no. sf.9. fig. 19.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 12990.

San Bernardino and Northridge, University Art Galleries, California State University, The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, 5 May 1989-30 March 1990.

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Lot Essay

On one side, Herakles is at a symposium with Athena and Iolas in attendance. The hero reclines on a kline, nude but for a himation enveloping his waist and legs, and holds a phiale in his right hand. Athena wears a high crested helmet and her snaky aegis over a peplos, holding a spear in one hand and offering Herakles a flower in the other. Iolas stands to the left, a baldric over his shoulder. A table piled with meats and bread is in the foreground, while the hero’s sword, lion skin and club are in the field to the right. On the other side, two warriors drive a quadriga to the right, trampling a fallen Scythian archer. A fully armed warrior advances at the right, his spear raised, a tripod as his shield blazon.
As Boardman informs (op. cit., p. 817), there are very few textual sources for Herakles banqueting other than with Eurytos and Pholos. The popularity of symposium scenes with Herakles attended by Athena was relatively short lived, making its first appearance in black-figure about 550 B.C. and continuing only to the end of the century. Herakles’ early reputation for thirst and hunger may be a reason that he is singled out among heroes for feasting scenes, and the “use of the reclining figure on a kline to designate the mortal as hero (but not the hero as a god) may have contributed to the motif” (op. cit., p. 821). Perhaps the best-known version of this scene is the bilingual amphora by the Andokides Painter in Munich, pp. 306-309 in R. Wünsche, ed., .