An Attic Black-figured Amphora, Attributed to the Rycroft Painter, circa 510 B.C.

with echinus foot, cylindrical handles, and flaring rim, the body painted on one side with Herakles wrestling the Nemean Lion and flanked by Iolaos on the left and Hermes on the right, Athena standing behind him, Iolaos holding Herakles' club and wearing a short chiton and himation, Hermes holding the kerykeion and wearing winged boots, chiton and himation, and petasos, Athena holding a spear and shield decorated with a satyr's head shown in relief, and wearing a chiton and himation and high-crested helmet, a tree with dotted branches in the background, the other side painted with Dionysos standing  to right between two dancing maenads and a satyr and holding a kantharos in his left hand, each maenad wearing a chiton and himation and playing the krotala, a dotted wine in the background, rays above the foot, festooned lotus buds and dots above each scene; details in added red and white, a graffito under the foot.

Ferruccio Bolla (1911-1984), Lugano
Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, Kunstwerke der Antike, Auktion 70, November 14^th, 1986, no. 197, pl. 38

Floriana Bernasconi et al., Das Tier in der Antike: 400 Werke ägyptischer, griechischer, etruskischer und römischer Kunst aus privatem und öffentlichem Besitz, catalogue of the exhibition at the University of Zurich, September 21st to November 17th, 1974, no. 226, pl. 38
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 3702

The Bacchic scene on this vase bears a close resemblance to the reverse of an amphora in Oxford, also attributed to the Rycroft Painter (see CVA Oxford, vol. 2, III H, pls. 6,3-4, and 7,7-8).