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GREECE, Attica, NIKOSTHENES (attributed to) (potter and painter)
Nikosthenic neckamphora (Attic black-figure ware)
 530 BCE

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
30.5 × 20.4 × 17.3 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1980
© Public Domain

Gallery location
18th Century Decorative Arts - Great Hall Costume Corridor
Level 2, NGV International

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Attica, Greece

Inscription
inscribed in Greek script at the junction of the neck and body: NIKOSTHENES EPOIESEN
inscribed on the base: III (trademark)

Accession Number
D392-1980

Department
Antiquities

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited

Physical description
Vase with an ovoid body, set off from a long neck tapering upwards to a wide flaring mouth, with very wide strap handles from the shoulder to rim level and four raised fillets, one at the neck/body junction, two on the upper body and one at the base of the body. The flat rim is decorated with dolphins and each side of the neck has a large lotus/palmette quatrefoil with added red and white. On the shoulder is a large eye, flanked by palmettes.

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