AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE LEKYTHOS, attributed in the manner of the late Berlin Painter, circa 470 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE LEKYTHOS, attributed in the manner of the late Berlin Painter, circa 470 B.C.

Poseidon runs to the right holding a trident in his right hand and a dolphin in his left; he is bearded and wreathed and wears a short chiton with a chlamys thrown over his left shoulder, detail of musculature in added red. Band of meanders interrupted by diagonal crosses and dots below, with meanders and crosses above the figure. The shoulder is decorated with a sphinx, her hair tied in a fillet and walking to the right, her left forepaw slightly raised, upper part of wing decorated with tiny 'hooks'. Palmette scrolls to right and left and a small tongue band above

Condition: badly fired, with part of the surface pitted or deficient; composed from fragments with minor restoration

15½in. (39.4cm.) high

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
This copies a similar theme by the Berlin Painter of a single figure on the body and a monster on the shoulder; cf., an unpublished lekythos from Padula with Poseidon on the body and a griffin on the shoulder (ARV², 212, no. 209 bis); also Adria B180 (ARV², 211, no. 200, lioness on shoulder), Paris market (ARV², 212, no. 209, griffin on shoulder), Syracuse 21884 (ARV², 212, no. 210, Pegasos on shoulder), Palermo V 871 ( ARV², 210, no. 211, Pegasos on shoulder) and Reggio (ARV², 1635, no. 201 bis, Nike on shoulder)

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