ATTRIBUTED TO THE VIRGINIA PAINTER, CIRCA LATE 6TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED EYE-CUP
ATTRIBUTED TO THE VIRGINIA PAINTER, CIRCA LATE 6TH CENTURY B.C.
12 ½ in. (31.8 cm.) diameter, excluding handles

Provenance

Acquired by the current owner in the 1980s-1990s.

Literature

J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 99.
Beazley Archive Database no. 340239.

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Lot Essay

This eye-cup is one of five examples attributed to the Virginia Painter by Beazley. It features a warrior holding a Boeotian shield in the tondo and a charioteer driving a quadriga between "female" eyes on each side of the exterior.

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