Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 67*
An Attic black-figure oinochoe
3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£7,000 - £10,000
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Siobhan Quin
Senior Specialist
An Attic black-figure oinochoe
Attributed to the Vatican Group G49, circa 525-475 B.C.
The trefoil-lipped jug decorated with a symposium scene, showing Dionysus or a banqueter reclining on a couch and holding a kylix, a hound sniffing beneath the couch and a standing female musician playing a lyre, with details in added red and white, 23cm high
Attributed to the Vatican Group G49, circa 525-475 B.C.
The trefoil-lipped jug decorated with a symposium scene, showing Dionysus or a banqueter reclining on a couch and holding a kylix, a hound sniffing beneath the couch and a standing female musician playing a lyre, with details in added red and white, 23cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private collection, Switzerland, 1970s.
with Galerie Puhze, Freiburg.
Dr W. C. collection, Hagen, acquired from the above in 1988.
Anonymous sale; Gorny and Mosch, Munich, 17 June 2015, lot 50.
For an oinochoe attributed to Vatican G49 and similarly decorated with a symposium scene of Dionysus, Ariadne and a dog, see the Beazley Archive, vase no. 330913.