AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED LEKYTHOS, ATTRIBUTED TO THE GORGON PAINTER, CIRCA 560-550 B.C.

belonging to the Deianeira Class, with echinus foot, slightly tapering ovoid body, concave handle, and flaring mouth with torus molding below, the body painted in a lively manner with a satyr riding a galloping donkey in pursuit of a running maenad or nymph, the donkey biting her arm, a rosette in the field, a guilloche band above the scene.

reportedly found in Taranto
Jacob Hirsch Galleries, New York, 1933

Humfry Payne, Necrocorinthia, Oxford, 1931, p. 193
The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Gallery Notes: Ceramics, November 1st, 1933, no. 81
Blue Book of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1931-1942, pp. 60 and 120
C.H. Emilie Haspels, Attic Black-figured Lekythoi, Paris, 1936, p. 1, note 4
Margarete Bieber, "Two Attic Black-figured Lekythoi in Buffalo," American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 48/2, 1944, p. 122, fig. 1
John D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 12, no. 22
J.R. Green, "Ajax or Nymph: An Aryballos in Dunedin," Antike Kunst, vol. IX, no.1, 1966, pp. 7-9, pl. 3, fig. 3
John D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 8
John Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, London, 1974, p. 17, fig. 16
T.H. Carpenter, T. Mannack, and M. Mendonca, Beazley Addenda, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1989, p. 3
Stephanos Geroulanos and René Bridler, Trauma, Wund-Entstehung und Wund-Pflege im antiken Griechenland, Mainz am Rhein, 1994, fig. 69
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 300105