CL1009

Attic black figure oinochoe

Burnt earthenware.

Attic, 6th century BC.

Height: 23cm.

Condition: Put together from fragments but complete.

Extremely rare Attic black figure trefoil oinochoe showing a palaestra scene with two akontists and a discobolos. Sgraffito at the base. Assigned to the Class of London B495.

Only two other BF oinochoae with palaestra scenes are recorded: a) -the white-gound oinochoe Louvre F 162, showing judge with two pairs of wrestlers. ABL 214, 183; pl. 25, 7. Mertens, AWG, 71, no. 25 and b) -an oinochoe by the Athena Painter, in Durham (N.C.), Duke University 1969.4 showing boy, jumper, and youth. Mertens, AWG, 73, no. 68. Fig.: Hesperia Art Bulletin 45/46 (Jan. 1969), no. A17. Shapiro, Greek Vases from Southern Collections, 148-9, no. 58.

Provenance: Collection Dr. Arnold Rüesch (1882-1929). The collection was sold at Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, on September 1, 1936. The present oinochoe was lot nr. 3 in the catalogue.

Price: on request

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