Attic Neck Amphora Boxers / Sphinxes - Mariani

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DAY 1 | Classical Antiquities & Asian Art

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Dec 5, 2018

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• Lot Description
  Greece, Attic, Light-Make Class, attributed to the Mariani Painter, ca. 500 to 475 BCE. An Attic neck amphora painted in the black-figure technique, depicting a pair of boxers with an onlooker leaning on a staff to the left on each side of the vessel and a sphinx below each handle. The vase has been attributed to the Mariani Painter who favored these sphinxes under the handles as well as boxing scenes. (See Beazley, ABV p. 595 - link below). The boxers are depicted in the nude and engaged in an action-packed match, their muscular forms delineated in black figure with incised details as well as head-wraps with dotted patterns created via fugitive red pigment. Standing in profile to the left of the match (one each side) is a draped figures holding implements, perhaps for breaking up the fight should it get too dangerous. In addition to this figural iconography, there is a register of stylized palmettes adorning the neck with a fretted band on the shoulder below as well as rays radiating from the foot to a solid band below the boxers. Size: 4.625" in diameter x 7.75" H (11.7 cm x 19.7 cm)
  
  See a very similar example in the Castle Museum, Norwich: 56.19.34 - published in Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 595.4; Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 298
  
  Follow this link to see it in the Beazely archive - http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/xdb/ASP/recordDetailsLarge.asp?recordCount=1&id={9A257E1F-F659-41CA-BF62-A4AE44C9501B}&returnPage=&start=0
  
  See another neck amphora attributed to the Mariani Painter in the British Museum (Accession Number: 1836.0224.36) - this one depicting Dionysos but also featuring sphinxes under handles - https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=459417&partId=1
  
  See another neck amphora attributed to the Mariani Painter, featuring pairs of maenads as well as sphinxes under the handles, at the Walters Museum (Accession Number 48.24) - https://art.thewalters.org/detail/1835/black-figure-amphora-with-maenads-2/?type=date&letter=a&sort=title&order=asc&begin_date=-10000&end_date=2015
  
  Provenance: private Southern California, USA collection, acquired in the 1970s to mid-1980s
  
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  Condition

  Nicks to rim. Expected surface wear with scuffs, nicks, and areas of pigment fading/loss as shown. Some misfiring resulting in red rather than black coloration. Possible repairs to neck/handles.
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