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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED TYRRHENIAN NECK-AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE FALLOW DEER PAINTER, CIRCA 560-550 B.C.
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED TYRRHENIAN NECK-AMPHORA ATTRIBUTED TO THE FALLOW DEER PAINTER, CIRCA 560-550 B.C. The obverse with Herakles battling a group of four Centaurs, the bearded hero kneeling to the right and drawing his bow, wearing the skin of the Nemean lion, his quiver on his back, his sheathed sword on his belt, two Centaurs before him, both moving to the right and looking back, one wielding an uprooted tree, the other a large boulder, three boulders on the ground below, two Centaurs behind, moving toward him, one wielding an uprooted tree and one a large boulder, nonsense inscriptions in the field; the reverse with confronting nude warriors, each armed in a crested Corinthian helmet, a spear, a shield and greaves, a whorl as the visible shield blazon, flanked by inward-facing horsemen, nonsense inscriptions in the field; two friezes below, each register separated by double lines, the top with dots, the upper with facing sphinxes between cocks and spread-winged sirens on the obverse, facing sphinxes below the handles, facing sphinxes flanked by sirens on the reverse; the lower register with a spread-winged siren between sirens and panthers on the obverse, a stag between panthers on the reverse, with a bird in flight to the left; alternating red and black tongues on the shoulders, overlapping double rays above the foot, a festoon of interlaced palmettes on the neck, highlighted in red on the obverse, alternating open and closed lotus buds on the exterior of the mouth; details in added white and red 14½ in. (36.8 cm.) high