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PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK CITY PRIVATE COLLECTOR
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE KYLIX
Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE KYLIX
Attributed to the Workshop of the Pistoxenos Painter
CIRCA 470-460 B.C.
The tondo with a youthful symposiast reclining on a striped pillow, a himation draped around his legs and waist, gesturing with a raised right hand towards a standing boy envelloped in a himation, both wearing fillets in added red, between the two an inscription in added red, "ho pais kalos," "the boy is beautiful," enclosed within a band of meander, repaired from multiple fragments
3 3/4in. (9.55cm.) high; 9 5/8in. (24.4cm.) diam. excluding handles
Attributed to the Workshop of the Pistoxenos Painter
CIRCA 470-460 B.C.
The tondo with a youthful symposiast reclining on a striped pillow, a himation draped around his legs and waist, gesturing with a raised right hand towards a standing boy envelloped in a himation, both wearing fillets in added red, between the two an inscription in added red, "ho pais kalos," "the boy is beautiful," enclosed within a band of meander, repaired from multiple fragments
3 3/4in. (9.55cm.) high; 9 5/8in. (24.4cm.) diam. excluding handles
Provenance
G/uunter Puhze, Kunst der Antike, Katalog 5, no 195.