An Etruscan black-figure amphora
Attributed to the Micali Painter, circa 525-500 B.C.
The body decorated with a frieze of running hares, ears alert, with leaves in the field, encircling bands above and below, a pair of large eyes on each shoulder, tongues around the rim, details incised, 35cm high注脚Provenance:
with Jean-Philippe Mariaud De Serres, Paris.
Bernard Brugidou collection, Paris, acquired from the above in April 1995.

The Micali Painter was one of the most prominent Etruscan painters of black-figure pottery. He frequently used animal iconography, clearly defining ribs, genitals, haunches and legs. For an amphora similarly depicting prancing hares in the Louvre, and an amphora with a multi-teated hare in Karlsruhe, see N. Spivey, The Micali Painter and His Followers, Oxford, 1993, nos. 30 and 48.