CIRCA 450 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED PELIKE
CIRCA 450 B.C.
The obverse with a woman and her handmaid, the woman on a stool to the right, facing left, wearing a chiton and a himation with a black border, her hair bound in a wide band, seated with her right elbow resting on her raised right knee, her head angled down, with her hand below her chin, her handmaid standing before her wearing a chiton, her hair in a sakkos, offering a fillet to the woman, a wreath hanging above; the reverse with a standing draped youth facing left, holding a walking stick in his right hand, his hair bound in a fillet; a band of ovolo on the neck
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high

Provenance

Arthur Stone Dewing, 1880-1971, Boston; and thence by descent to his daughter Mary Morain (d. 1999), and her husband Lloyd (d. 2010).
Acquired by the current owner as a gift from Lloyd Morain.

Literature

J. Oleson and D. Buitron, Coins and Vases of Arthur Stone Dewing, Cambridge, 1971, no. 22.

Exhibited

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1961-2002.
Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 11 March - 15 April, 1971, and 2002.

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Lot Essay

The pose of the seated woman with her head angled forward in a pensive attitude recalls 5th century B.C. depictions of Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, such as the Greek marble found at Persepolis and the Attic red-figured skyphos from Chiusi, the name-piece of the Penelope Painter (see nos. 2b and 16 in Hausmann, "Penelope," in LIMC).

The style of the painting on this pelike recalls the Manner of the Sabouroff Painter and his followers the Painter of Munich 2363 and the Trophy Painter.

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