Alabastra decorated with an Amazon enjoyed a brief period of popularity at the end of the sixth century B.C. On this vase, there is no evident connection between the two figures. The presence of the youth may indicate that Amazon alabastra were favored by youths rather than women.
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Title:Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)
Artist:Attributed to the Painter of New York 21.131
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 510–500 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; white-ground
Dimensions:H. 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Gift of Gisela M. A. Richter, 1921
Object Number:21.131
[Until 1920, art market, London]; summer 1920, purchased by Gisela M.A. Richter; acquired in 1921, gift of Gisela M.A. Richter.
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Becatti, Giovanni and Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli. 1973. Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale, Suppl. 1. p. 545, Rome: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
Neils, Jenifer. 1980. "The Group of the Negro Alabastra: A Study in Motif Transferal." Antike Kunst, 23(1): no. 48, p. 18, pl. 6.8–.9.
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Carpenter, Thomas H., Thomas Mannack, and Melanie Mendonça. 1989. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. no. 206, Oxford.
Badinou, Panayota. 2003. La laine et le parfum: Épinetra et alabastres, forme, iconographie et fonction, recherche de céramique attique féminine, Monographs on Antiquity, Vol. 2. no. A 216, pp. 113, 193, pl. 88, Louvain: Peeters.
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