An Attic Black-Figured Panel Amphora, circa 540-530 B.C.

with echinus foot and flaring mouth, one side painted with four warriors in combat, an himation-clad man observing the scene at left, and on the other side with two pairs of warriors fighting, a male figure fleeing the scene at left; details in added white and red.

Christie’s, London, December 12th, 1984, no. 136, illus.
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
Sotheby's, New York, May 29th, 1987, no. 128, illus.
New York private collection

Christie’s, London, November 7th, 1984, no. 228, illus.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 10491

Repaired from many fragments with in-painting along the joins, large areas of black paint visible in the main image which shows the side repaired from the most fragments, there appears to be overpainting of the red areas (shield, crests, helmets, etc.) and also in the background especially around the two figures at right. The painted scene on side B is repaired from only a few large fragments but is also almost entirely misfired as well as the foot, neck, rim, and one of the handles on same side, the surface is worn overall and appears to have been polished. Losses to added white overall.
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For a related amphora in Budapest (inv. no. 21.24) by the White-loving Painter, near the Bucci Painter, or by this painter himself, see M.B. Moore, Horses on Black-figured Greek Vases of the Archaic Period, ca. 620-480 B.C., p. 104, no. A 711 ter.