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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED FIGURAL RHYTON
MANNER OF THE TARQUINIA PAINTER, CIRCA 460-450 B.C.
Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED FIGURAL RHYTON
MANNER OF THE TARQUINIA PAINTER, CIRCA 460-450 B.C.
Molded in the form of the head of a young bull, the surface white ground with dilute black details for eyelashes and along the modelled ridges of the neck and brows, his small budding horns, ears and snout in gray-black, with white for the tips and within the ears, red in the nostrils and mouth, the forehead and top of the snout patterned with applied points painted reddish-brown, the cylindrical vessel neck, interior and exterior, and the strap handle black-glazed, the neck with a symposion scene of a hetaira between two youths, the hetaira with her himation draped around her waist and legs, her breasts bare, her head turned back to the youth behind her, the youth to the left also with his head turned back, each wearing a fillet in added white, two baskets and a flute case hanging above
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high
MANNER OF THE TARQUINIA PAINTER, CIRCA 460-450 B.C.
Molded in the form of the head of a young bull, the surface white ground with dilute black details for eyelashes and along the modelled ridges of the neck and brows, his small budding horns, ears and snout in gray-black, with white for the tips and within the ears, red in the nostrils and mouth, the forehead and top of the snout patterned with applied points painted reddish-brown, the cylindrical vessel neck, interior and exterior, and the strap handle black-glazed, the neck with a symposion scene of a hetaira between two youths, the hetaira with her himation draped around her waist and legs, her breasts bare, her head turned back to the youth behind her, the youth to the left also with his head turned back, each wearing a fillet in added white, two baskets and a flute case hanging above
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high
Provenance
with T. Fujita, 1970s.
Literature
E. Simon, The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Mainz, 1982, no. 39.
G. Hagenow, Aus den Weingarten der Antike, Mainz, 1982, p. 105, fig. 9.
H. Hoffmann, "Rhyta and Kantharoi in Greek Ritual" in Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Volume 4, Malibu, 1989, fig. 13.
G. Hagenow, Aus den Weingarten der Antike, Mainz, 1982, p. 105, fig. 9.
H. Hoffmann, "Rhyta and Kantharoi in Greek Ritual" in Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Volume 4, Malibu, 1989, fig. 13.