Black-figure Amphora
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The presence of Dionysos, the god of wine, on this vase suggests that the vessel contained his preferred drink. Dionysos holds branches of ivy and a horn filled, no doubt, with wine. He appears with satyrs and his lovely consort, Ariadne.
This vase was fashioned a generation before the vessel to your left and reflects a different—but no less beautiful—manner of drawing the human figure.
With Jacob Hirsch, by 1933 [1];
Purchased from Hirsch by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] Jacob Hirsch, PhD. (1874–1955) was born in Munich, studied at Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Rome, and then founded a dealership in Munich in 1897. He moved to Lucerne in 1919 and founded Ars Classica in 1922. In 1931, he opened Jacob Hirsch Antiquities in New York. At some point, he also had a gallery in Paris. He handled coins and antiquities but also had his own collection. See Hadrien Rambach, “A List of coin dealers in nineteenth-century Germany,” in A Collection in Context. Kommentierte Edition der Briefe und Dokumente Sammlung Dr. Karl von Schäffer, ed. Henner Hardt and Stefan Krmnicek (Tübingen, Germany: Tübingen University Press, 2017), 69–70, hal-04345662. See also “Dr. Jacob Hirsch, 81, An Authority on Art,” New York Times, July 5, 1955, 29.
John Beazley, Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and to Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), 115, no. 5 ter.
