An Attic Black-figured Neck Amphora, attributed to the Circle of the Leagros Group, circa 500 B.C.

with triple handles, painted on one side with Apollo Kitharodos between two women or muses, one holding a flower to her nose, and on the other with a warrior facing left in full armor and flanked by two archers, his shield emblazoned with an panther head, rays above the foot beneath a frieze of linked lotus buds, tongues on the shoulder, linked palmettes on each side of the neck, a sigma-shaped graffito under the foot.

Léo and Eugenie Errera (1858-1905 and 1866-1934, respectively)
by descent to their children and heirs: Alfred Errera, Marchessa Louise Massoni, née Errera, and Ida Stadler, née Errera, 1934
Anne Glorie, née Stadler, Brussels, received in 1963 upon division of the collection
by descent to the present owner

Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire, Brussels, 1935-1963, together with 131 Greek vases, mostly South Italian

DOCUMENTED
Typewritten letter dated April 10th, 1964, signed by all three heirs to Léo and Eugénie Errera, agreeing to offer three vases for sale to the Museum (not including the present one) and to leave the others on loan
Typewritten Museum receipt dated March 20th, 1963, attesting to the release of 43 vases to the heirs of Eugénie Errera (35 of the vases are referred to based on their photographic inventory numbers); the receipt is accompanied by a summary list of 35 "vases grecques et italiques appartenant à Madame Glorie", each with its photographic inventory number and dimensions, as well as of a handful of minor items, presumably the ones referred to as not photographed in the receipt. Based on the dimensions the present item is likely to be no. 86 on this list, subject to visual confirmation in the photographic archives of the Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire in Brussels

Repaired from several large fragments with occasional small losses along the mostly clean breaks. The painted scene with Apollo is reconstituted from three fragments, the reverse with the three warriors is intact. Shield and central warrior figure slightly misfired. Large areas of black paint along the outside of the rim. The top of the handles probably retouched as well.
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On the history of the Errera Collection of Greek vases in relation to the Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire in Brussels see N. Massar and I. Rosatti, Bulletin des Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, vol. 84, 2013, pp. 57ff. Anne Stadler gave the patera to the Museum in 2014.