Decoration: A,B: FLORAL, DOUBLE LOTUS PALMETTE CHAIN Neck A: DIONYSOS WITH DRINKING HORN BETWEEN SATYR AND MAENAD IN NEBRIS Neck B: DIONYSOS WITH DRINKING HORN BETWEEN SATYR AND MAENAD Shoulder A and B: LOTUS PALMETTE BETWEEN SPHINXES BETWEEN LIONS (ANIMAL FRIEZE)
Last Recorded Collection: Germany, private: 64
Previous Collections:
Luzern, market, Ars Antiqua
Gripsholm, H. Throne-Holst
London, market, Christie's
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 122.5 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 105 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 105-6 Christie, Manson and Woods, sale catalogue: 8.6.1988, 28-29, NO.35 (DRAWING OF S, COLOUR OF A) Guntner, G. et al., Mythen und Menschen, Griechische Vasenkunst aus einer deutschen Privatsammlung (Mainz, 1997): 38-41, NO.10 PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 6 (COLOUR OF A, B, UH AND LP)
CAVI Subject: NECK: DIONYSUS WITH MAENAD AND SATYR. B: SIMILAR. SHOULDER: A: TWO SPHINXES
BETWEEN TWO LIONS TURNED TOWARD THE HANDLES. B: SIMILAR.
CAVI Inscriptions: SIGNED NIKOSTHENES.
CAVI Comments: THIS SURELY IS THE VASE LISTED IN PARA., ALTHOUGH THERE IS A SLIGHT
DIFFERENCE IN THE DESCRIPTION: TWO SPHINXES GREETING WITH A SMALL PLANT BETWEEN.