Dionysus and Maenads
Large red-figured stamnos. Attic.
Clay.
Attributed to the Phiale Painter.
Ca. 440 BCE.
Height 43.5 cm.
Sotheby’s Auction House, New York

Dionysus and Maenads.

Large red-figured stamnos. Attic.
Clay.
Attributed to the Phiale Painter.
Ca. 440 BCE.
Height 43.5 cm.

Sotheby’s Auction House, New York.

Private collection, USA.
Origin:
Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel.
Andre Emmerich, New York, 1968.
Sotheby’s, New York, June 8th, 2011, lot 14. Estimate 70,000—100,000 USD. Price realized: 194,500 USD.
Description:

A large Attic red-figured stamnos, attributed to the Phiale Painter, circa 440 B. C.

painted with Dionysos walking to right, holding a kantharos and thyrsos, and accompanied by two maenads, one bearing a wreath of ivy, the other holding a torch and oinochoe, the reverse with a gesturing old satyr standing between two maenads holding thyrsoi, an encircling band of meanders and crossed squares below, linked palmettes in the handle zones, tongues on the shoulder.
Height 1718 in. 43.5 cm.

Literature:
Andre Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York, Art of the Ancients: Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. An Exhibition organized in Cooperation with Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basle, Switzerland, February 7th—March 13th, 1968, pp. 30—31, no. 38, ill.
John Oakley, The Phiale Painter, Mainz, 1991, pp. 36, 51, 80, no. 84bis, and pl. 67
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 31374.
Credits:
© 2011. Photo, text: Sotheby’s Auction House (Sale N08762 Lot 14).
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