Greek white-ground alabastron, Athens, c.480-470 BC
Terracotta
Height: 17cm
11824 IVP
Further images
An elegant white ground alabastron decorated in black slip to show an Amazon with wavy hair tied in a pony tail at the base of her neck, holding a bow...
An elegant white ground alabastron decorated in black slip to show an Amazon with wavy hair tied in a pony tail at the base of her neck, holding a bow and an axe. She wears trousers with a white satchel and black quiver held at her waist, thick white drapery falling from the upper left arm. A single palm tree in the space behind and a simply stool. Repaired from fragments with some areas of restoration and touching in.
Provenance
Victor Emile Gabriel Chevallier (1889-1969) and his wife Marguerite Jeanne Verel (1887-1962), France; thence by descent
Mr. X, France; by descent from the above in 1969, thence by descent through two estates
