An Attic Red-figured Stamnos, attributed to the Kleophon Painter, circa 435-425 B.C.

side A painted with four figures from a Dionysiac procession, comprising a maenad playing the double flute, leading the processing at right, followed by a youth holding a staff, a bearded man and a youth playing the lyre, side B painted with three conversing draped youths, an oinochoe and another vessel in the field, elaborate palmettes and scrolls in the handle zones, a band of meander and checkered squares below the scenes, tongues on the shoulder, and an ovolo kymation on the rim; accession no. 09.6, old inventory no. 680.

Henri De Morgan (1854-1909), New York, (Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, Catalogue of Greek Vases and Antique Iridescent Glass Cameos, Intaglios, and Silver Coins Selected and Catalogued by H. De Morgan, January 16th, 1909, no. 80, illus.)
Thomas Barlow Walker (1840-1928), Minneapolis, Minnesota, acquired at the above sale
The T.B. Walker Foundation (founded 1925), Minneapolis, inv. no. WF2
on loan from the above to the Walker Art Gallery, subsequently the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, acc. no. 09.6, old inv. no. 680
on loan from both of the above to the University Gallery, University of Minnesota, inv. no. L1972.1.2

“Greek Vases,” University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February 9th-March 31st, 1981

John D. Beazley, Attic red-figure vase-painters, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1963, pp. 1144, no. 10, and 1684
Michael Anderson, Greek Vases, exhibition catalogue, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1981, p. 10, no. 6
T.H. Carpenter et al., Beazley Addenda, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1989, p. 334
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 215150 (www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/0B8DC936-1541-465F-8A91-8D310B8E0170)

The body of the vase is repaired from numerous large and small fragments, with fills along some of the break-lines and missing areas filled in, some of them in-painted but most not, suggesting it has been broken more than once. Side A is in better shape than side B, where large areas on two of the figures in particular are filled in, as is visible in the photos. The glaze on the preserved areas is in good condition. The neck of the vessel is in fairly good condition, but seems to have small areas of overpaint and nicks filled in. One handle is intact, the other repaired and with small restorations. The foot is intact and has inked numbers and the remnant of an old label underneath.
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