A Paestan Red-Figure Neck Amphora, Attributed to Python, circa 340-330 B.C.

the body painted in front with Eros reaching up to grasp a fillet held up by a draped woman with open box and fillet in her left hand, and on the the reverse with a nude youth holding a thyrsus and skewer of fruit, and a draped woman with wreath and fillet, the neck decorated on one side with a siren holding a skewer of fruit and tambourine, and on the other with a head of a woman turned to left; the details in added red, yellow, and white.

Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, February 19th, 1980, no. 118, illus.
Sotheby's, London, July 9th-10th, 1984, no. 351, illus.
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
acquired from the above by the present owner in the second half of the 1980s

A.D. Trendall, The Red-figures Vases of Paestum, British School at Rome, 1987, p. 168, no. 347, pl. 111a,b
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, Art of the Ancient World, vol. IV, 1985, no. 126, ill. on p. 39

One handle repaired, minor nicks on rim and foot, otherwise intact and generally excellent.
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