Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
11 July 1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/716
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    34/212 (page 18)
    missing. The main picture shows Achilles and Ajax playing at draughts, with their armour behind them, and Athena standing between them; mock inscription in the field. On the shoulder of the vase, a _ charioteer mounts the chariot, and a warrior takes leave of an aged man; a man sits facing the horses, and a dog looks up at him. At the junction of handle and mouth there is a plastic female head; bold Attic work of the late 6th Century, B.c. [Pl. X] 154 155 156 157 nothing missing. On the front of the vase is a fountain scene. ‘he fountain building is represented by columns, architrave, and two panther-head spouts. ‘Two women are lifting down the hydriai from their heads to fill them, and a man comes up between them. On the reverse of the vase are three bearded revellers, and a woman holding a branch and playing the castanets; bold Attic work of the late 6th Century, B.c. [Pl. VIII] decorated with a figure of Europa on the Bull. The upper part of Huropa, from the waist up, the horns of the bull and part of his tail, with the neck, mouth, and back-handle of the vase, are modern; Attic work of about 500 B.o. high, mended and considerably restored. On each side, a figure of an Amazon: on one side, most of the legs, and parts of the shield and patera are modern, on the other the right arm, left shoulder and part of the breast; Attic work of about 490 B.c. The subject is a concert, a youth playing the cithara between two seated listeners. The head and shoulders of the left-hand listener, part of the head and shoulders of the left-hand one, and a few small details, are modern; Attire work of about 490 B.c. repainted. Of the interior picture, only small genuine portions are visible; a young cup-bearer holds a cup in