AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE PELIKE, attributed to the Pan Painter, circa 470 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE PELIKE, attributed to the Pan Painter, circa 470 B.C.

Side A: a youth, dressed as a huntsman, wearing a short chiton, chlamys, petasos and high boots, holding two spears in his right hand stands before his bearded father, who stands facing him holding a knotted staff in his left hand and raising his right forefinger. To the left of the youth a woman moves away, looking backwards as she pours from an oenochoe and holds a phiale in her left hand

Side B: a youth and a bearded man. The youth, wrapped in a mantle and wearing a wreath, looks down at the lyre he is holding in his right hand, possibly a love-gift from the bearded man who stands with his back to the spectator, his right hand on his hip, looking towards him, with disk in the field behind the youth's head

An open palmette below each handle.

Incised graffito IX on the base

Condition: virtually complete but for restoration on the lower part of the female figure and some lines added; much reworked

15 1/8in. (38.5cm.) high; 6 7/8in. (17.3cm.) diam. of foot

Exhibited

Masterworks of Greek Art, Basel, 1960

Lot Essay

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Beazley, ARV², 554, no. 84; Follmann, Der Pan-Maler, 68, 72 and 111, Follmann (p. 72) rejects the attribution to the Pan Painter, but gives no reason for doing so; M. und M., Auktion 40, 13 Dezember 1969, p. 42, no. 101; K. Schefold, Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst, Basel and Stuttgart, 1960, 200 and 202, no. 217; R.-M. Becker, Forman attischer Peliken, Böblingen, 1979, Katalogband, 39-40, no. 113; Johnston, Trademarks on Greek Vases, 122, 18D, no. 75.

Another interpretation of the scene might be the arrival of Theseus in Athens. In the myth, Theseus arrives before his father, Aegeus, the King of Athens; his stepmother, Medea, jealous of the stranger, attempts to poison him

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