An Attic Black-figured Panel Amphora, attributed to the Painter of Berlin 1686, circa 550 B.C.

finely painted on one side with a departure scene showing a warrior flanked by a man and a woman, two children, and five other figures, nonsensical inscriptions in the field, and on the other side with a man flanked by two groups of three figures each containing a warrior, a bearded man, and a figure of Hermes, nonsensical inscriptions in the field, rays above the foot, a frieze of linked lotus and palmettes above each scene, the details in added red, a dipinto and a graffito under the foot.

German private collection
Helena and Jacques Schulman, Amsterdam
Lincoln Higgie, Chicago
acquired from the above by the present owner in 1976

The Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1978-2006/2008
"Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections," The Art Institute of Chicago, December 22nd, 1979 to February 24th, 1980

Warren G. Moon and Louise Berge, eds., Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections, exhibition catalogue, Chicago, 1979, no. 32, pp. 54-56
Dietrich von Bothmer, The Amasis Painter and his World, Malibu, 1985, p. 51, fig. 51
Patricia C. Powell, ed., Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisc., p. 84, illus.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 5173, illus.

Intact, minor nicks overall including small chips and abrasions on rim, small losses to glaze in figural scenes, especially on two of the figures standing on the right in warrior departure scene, areas of incrustation on handles and foot.
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