Greek black-figure neck amphora, attributed to the Kleophrades

Greek black-figure neck amphora, attributed to the Kleophrades Painter
Attic. c. 510 - 500 BC
The vessel with clearly defined neck and distinct shoulder is decorated on one side with Dionysos and a goat standing between two maenads. The god holds a kantharos and vine
branches. The reverse shows a maenad and a goat between two cavorting satyrs, the maenad holding vine branches and a clapper. Encircling rays and lotus buds above a torus
foot. The neck decorated with linked double palmettes, triple handles attached at shoulder and neck, with further lotus flower and palmette decoration around the join.
More usually associated with red-figure work, the Kleophrades painter is widely recognised as one of the finest of the Athenian painters. Active c.510 -470 BC, he was so named
by Beazley after a cup in the Cabinet des Medailles with a potter's inscription 'Kleophrades'.
This comes with a thermoluminescence test report from Oxford Authentication confirming its antiquity.
Height: 39.7 cm
Provenance:
Ars Antiqua, Lucerne, prior to 1963; Collection of Sideo Fromoluti and Nora Speyer, USA
Literature:
Published: John D Beazley, 'Attic Red-figure Vase-painters', 2nd edition, Oxford, 1963, p.194, no.1 and Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no.201802.