An ancient Attic Greek small black-figure amphora depicting a nude hoplite in a crested Corinthian helmet, with a spear and a shield; On the reverse, a bearded man seated on a stool between two nude boys.
Athens, Attica.
Ca. 520 - 500 BC.
Height: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm).
Formerly in the Raphael Collin collection, French Painter, (1850 -1916); subsequently, Senator William A. Clark (1839 - 1925) collection; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, (1926 - 2014); American University Museum (2014 - 2021).
Published: R. Collin, Collection of Antique Grecian, Egyptian and Etruscan Statuettes, Vases, Tanagras, etc. (Paris, 1911), #161, p. 22.