AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE LEKYTHOS, attributed to the Berlin Painter, 480-470 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE LEKYTHOS, attributed to the Berlin Painter, 480-470 B.C.

The shoulder decorated with a crouching sphinx with raised left forepaw; she wears a diadem in her long hair; each forepart of her wings is dotted; band of tongues below the neck and a band of meander below the shoulder.

Graffito incised on the base

Condition: intact

13½in. (34.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
M. und M., Auktion XXVI, 5 Oktober 1963, 71, no. 134, pl. 47; Cahn attributed this vase to the Berlin Painter but quotes a letter from Beazley who, though noting the similarity of the patternwork with the work of the Master, does not accept the attribution; C. M. Robertson, A Red-Figured Lekythos, Journal of the J. P. Getty Museum, 2, 1975, 57-60, this lekythos is discussed on p. 60; Johnston, Trademarks on Greek Vases, 99, type 13B, no. 25

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