NOLA TYPE AMPHORA Black glazed earthenware with red reserve. H. 23 cm Greece, 5th century BC Provenance Former private collection French private collection, in the same family since the 1980s The body is decorated on both sides. Side A: a female figure wearing a chiton hands a zither to a man crowned with laurel, seated on a throne and holding a sceptre ending in a plant motif, probably Apollo. Side B: a mature, bearded man, wearing a heavy cloak wrapped around his body, leans on a staff. A Red-Figure Nolan Neck-Amphora Greece, Attica. In the manner of the Dreseden Painter. Circa 475-425 BC Side A: a female figure dressed in a chiton offers a kithara to a man seated on a throne, crowned with laurel and holding a scepter ending in a vegetal decoration, presumably Apollo. Side B: a bearded mature man, wearing a heavy cloak wrapped around his body, leaning on a staff.