Property from the MUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR INSTITUTE MUSEUM OF ART for the acquisitions fund
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE KYLIX attributed to the Akestorides Painter

Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE KYLIX attributed to the Akestorides Painter
CIRCA 470 B.C.

The tondo with Kyakinthos riding Apollo's swan chariot, a scrolling tendril in his right hand, stylized waves below, with meander and cross-squares border, the A and B sides with three standing women, each wearing a himation over a chiton, and a sakkos, palmettes below and on either side of the handles, grafitti under the foot, repaired and restored, 9 5/16in. (23.7cm.) diam. excluding handles, 3 11/16in. (9.3cm.) high
Provenance
Münzen und Medaillen, Kunstwerke der Antike, Basel, Auktion 34, no. 158, via Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1967
Literature
Beazley, Paralipomena, p. 417.
Boardman, ARFVI, no. 368.
Brommer,Vasenlisten, pl. 527, no. 15.
Carpenter, Beazley Addenda, II, p. 289, no. (782).
Keuls, The Reign of the Phallus, p. 80, fig. 64.
Villard and Villard, "Hyakinthos" in LIMC, p. 547, no. 10, pl. 376.