Black-figure Amphora
Artist
Mastos Painter
(Greek)
Date530-520 B.C.E.
MediumTerracotta
DimensionsOverall: 14 1/2 inches (36.83 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-3/1
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
Gallery LabelThe 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;
Purchased from Hirsch by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
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.
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