An Attic Black-figured Trefoil Oinochoe, attributed to the Painter of Brussels R 236, Class of London B 495, circa 500-490 B.C.

painted with Dionysos seated on a stool facing right, holding a drinking horn and vine branches, and flanked by a dancing satyr and maenad, tongues on the shoulder, meander on the neck, a graffito underneath the foot.

H. Larrain, New York (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, December 1st, 1954, no. 115, illus.)
Mrs. R. G. Maeder, Interlaken, Massachusetts (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, January 20th, 1967, no. 206, illus.)

John D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 697, addendum to pp. 428-429
John D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, pp. 184 and 188, 2bis
Andrew J. Clark, Attic Black-figured 'Olpai' and 'Oinochoai,' diss., New York University, 1992, cat. no. 1385

Repaired from several fragments with in-painting and minor restorations along breaklines, small section of foot either repaired or restored, minor chip on rim, minor losses to black glaze in-painted overall, painted panel in relatively good condition with most of the maenad's added white preserved.
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