Beschreibung:

AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE BERLIN PAINTER, CIRCA 490-480 B.C.
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA ATTRIBUTED TO THE BERLIN PAINTER, CIRCA 490-480 B.C. Elegantly potted with a torus and disk foot, an echinus mouth with an offset flaring rim, and twisted handles; depicting a combat between two warriors, a single figure isolated on each side, one side with a youthful warrior advancing to the right, wearing greaves and a short pleated chiton below a corselet, the hem billowing behind from his forward movement, the corselet with a belt of dotted circles, a sword suspended by a baldric in added red over his right shoulder, his crested Chalcidian helmet with the cheek-guards raised, his long hair emerging from beneath the helmet, his youthful sideburns in dilute glaze, his circular shield over his left arm, wielding a spear in his upraised right hand, a band of running key as the groundline; the other side with an older bearded warrior reeling backwards, his head turned back, bleeding wounds on his right breast and right thigh in added red, wearing a short belted chiton and a crested Corinthian helmet high on his head, a sword hanging from a baldric over his right shoulder, a circular shield on his left arm, the shield strap with opposing palmettes, a spear in his right hand, tip upward, the butt planted in the ground for support, pairs of stopt meander interspersed with saltire and cross squares as the groundline; numerous preliminary sketch lines visible, a pre-firing dent on either side to the right of the figure, that on the side with the youthful warrior showing the "ghost" of a meander and saltire-square band 22 9/16 in. (57.3 cm.) high