with echinus foot, cylindrical handles, and flaring mouth, the body painted in front with a gigantomachy showing Athena and Ares fighting two giants, Athena holding a shield emblazoned with a bird and wearing a peplos and Attic helmet, Ares wearing a chlamys and Corinthian helmet, the reverse painted with a man preparing for battle and flanked by two himation-clad bearded men and two youths, a panel of festooned palmette lotuses above each scene, rays above the foot, the details in red and white, graffito under the foot.

Spink & Son, Ltd., London
Leon Pomerance Collection, New York (Sotheby's, New York, Noജvember 24th-25th, 1987, no. 115, illus.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Ancient Art from New York Private Collections," December 17th, 1959, to February 28th, 1960
The Brooklyn Museum, "The Pomerance Collection of Ancient Art," June 14th, to October 2nd, 1966
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut,1988-2008

John D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 693, no. 34bis (Addendum to pp. 304-310)
The Pomerance Collection of Ancient Art, exhibition catalogue, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1966, no. 112, illus.
John D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 132
T.H. Carpenter, T. Mannack, and M. Mendonca, Beazley Addenda, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1989, p. 81
Ancient Art from New York Private Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, catalogue of the exhibition, New York, 1959, p. 52, no. 199, pls. 74-75
Elke Böhr, Der Schaukelmaler, 1982, pp. 10, 22, 31f., 47, and 79, pl. 11
E. Böhr and W. Martini, eds., Studien zur Mythologie und Vasenmalerei. Festschrift für Konrad Schauenburg, Mainz am Rhein, 1986, p. 39
Beazley Pottery Archive Database, no. 306602

Intact, four chips and small areas of abrasion on upper edge of rim, some with remains of old restoration and paint, large area of misfiring painted black below one handle and beneath arming scene, areas of flaking to black paint, especially on foot, on rays above foot, and probably on top of handles, have been painted in, panels in very good condition with usual wear to reds and whites and occasional nicks (Athena’s shield and throat area of warrior to her left).
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