An Attic Black-figured Panel Amphora, attributed to the Swing Painter, circa 530-520 B.C.

decorated on one side with a departure scene comprising a young horseman accompanied by a bearded man and two youths, and on the other side with three youths engaged in a foot race flanked by two observers, a band of linked lotus flowers and palmettes above each scene, rays above the foot, the details in added red and white.

Lord St. Audries, St. Audries, Taunton (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, February 23rd-24th, 1920, no. 229, and July 27th, 1933, no. 89, pl. I., acquired by Crawford)
The Kevorkian Foundation (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Art of the Near East and the Orient. Classical Antiquities. Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, February 25th-26th, 1966, no. 230, illus.)

John D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 306, no. 47
John D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 133
Elke Böhr, Der Schaukelmaler, Mainz, 1982, cat. no. 5, pp. 26, 49, 77-78, and 131, pl. 3c-d
Thomas H. Carpenter, Beazley Addenda, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1989, p. 81
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 301527

Mended from several fairly large fragments with in-painting and minor areas of restoration along breaklines, outer perimeter of top of rim slightly abraded and chipped in one place, losses to glaze on handles in- or over-painted in places, about a quarter of rays above foot have been repainted, figural scenes not affected by repairs in any significant way except for small area of fill running across top of head of first runner from right.
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