amphora• I could see her proudly carrying on her head an amphora to a well and disdaining all admirers.• It is a black-figure amphora showing a tree with ten branches and an owltetherednear by.• The Northampton amphora, the best vase in the sale, made a record price of £190,000.• Nor were the paintings on the amphora of a kind any museum would dare put on display.