6¹⁄₄ in. (15.8 cm.) high

Private Collection, New York, acquired by 1900.
Property of a New York State Private Collector; Antiquities, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 1 December 1972, lot 177.

E.E. Bell, "Review: Corinthian Komos Vases, by Axel Seeberg," American Journal of Archaeology 77, no. 2, 1973, p. 244.
D.A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase Painting of the Archaic Period, vol. 1, Berkeley, 1988, p. 178, no. 15, pl. 68, nos. 1a-b.
K. Hamma, ed., The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, San Bernardino, 1989, p. 19, no. 3.

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

The body depicts a padded dancer holding a rhyton and moving to the right between two sirens. As Amyx explains (op. cit., p. 651), the precise meaning of the padded dancer in Corinthian vase painting eludes scholars. While some speculate that the dancers are linked to a Dionysian theme, others suggest that they might relate to a rite associated with Artemis. They were a popular motif on Corinthian vases from the mid 7th to the mid 6th century B.C.