拍品专文
The Painter of Vatican 73 was one of the most prolific painters from Corinth. To date, more than fifty olpai, similar to the present example, have been attributed to his hand. He favored four registers filled with animals and monsters, typically centering the upper and third with a swan flanked by sphinxes, as here. Additionally on this olpe, lions, panthers, goats, bulls and stags fill the registers, with one bearded male siren, a great rarity. For the Painter of Vatican 73, see D.A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting in the Archaic Period, pp. 66-70 and C.W. Neeft, “What is in a Name? The Painter of Vatican 73 in The Getty,” in M. True and M.L. Hart, eds., Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, vol. 6, pp. 1-34.