ATTIC BLACK FIGURE SKYPHOS

ATTIC BLACK FIGURE SKYPHOS

Both sides decorated with god of wine, Dionysos holding a drinking-horn, reclining between seated maenads with wreath in her hands, tendrils in field; ivy leaf below horizontal handles.

Ex Jacques Schulman BV, Amsterdam, acq. from Sotheby’s, London 1981.
H. 8,6 cm. Intact.

Haimon Painter, 5th cent. BC., c. 470 BC

Cf. E. Haspels, Attic Black-figured lekythoi, Paris, 1936, p. 135;
J.D. Beazley, Attic Black figure Vase-Painters, NY 1978, p.557-8
Publ. Jacques Schulman BV., Amsterdam, List 237, 1988, no. 16