An Attic Black-figured Hydria, attributed to the Ready Painter, circa 520-510 B.C.

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Description

An Attic Black-figured Hydria, attributed to the Ready Painter
Height 12 3/8 in. 31 cm.

the body decorated with an arming scene showing a young warrior (Achilles?) fastening his greave in front of a woman (Athena?) holding his shield and spear, a himation-clad man and a young warrior holding a spear on either side, ivy leaves flanking the scene, the shoulder decorated with a striding panther facing right between two grazing deer; rays above the foot, tongues below the neck, the details in added white and red.

Provenance

Spink & Son, London
Dr. Jacques Denier (1926-1992), La Tour du Pin, Isère

Literature

John D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 54

Catalogue Note

For a related hydria by the Ready Painter showing the departure of a fully armed warrior, the moment immediately following the arming, and with similar shoulder decoration, see Christie's, London, April 28th, 1964, no. 63 (Beazley, op. cit., p. 54).