Francesca Hickin
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Various Properties
Lot 42
An Attic black-figure doubleen
1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £35,250 inc. premium
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An Attic black-figure doubleen
Attributed to the Diosphos Painter, circa 525-475 B.C.
Side A depicting an Amazon warrior restraining her horse, a spear in her left hand, wearing a cuirass over a short tunic and high crested helmet, a palm tree in the field, side B depicting a Scythian leading his horse by the reigns, holding a bow and two arrows in his left hand, a quiver at his waist, a palm in the field, rays framing the tops of the scenes, linked palmettes above the shoulder, details in added red and white, 20cm high
Attributed to the Diosphos Painter, circa 525-475 B.C.
Side A depicting an Amazon warrior restraining her horse, a spear in her left hand, wearing a cuirass over a short tunic and high crested helmet, a palm tree in the field, side B depicting a Scythian leading his horse by the reigns, holding a bow and two arrows in his left hand, a quiver at his waist, a palm in the field, rays framing the tops of the scenes, linked palmettes above the shoulder, details in added red and white, 20cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 29 January 1968, lot 145.
Private collection, London, acquired from the above sale; and thence by descent to the present owner.
Being influenced by the Edinburgh Painter, the Diosphos Painter depicted lively figures and specialised in small neck amphorae and alabastra. For a similar vase with a warrior mounting his horse by the Diosphos Painter see the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, acc. no. AN1884.710.