CIRCA 550-540 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED LIP-CUP
CIRCA 550-540 B.C.
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) diameter

Provenance

with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, (Katalog 4, 1982, no. 181; Katalog 8, 1990, no. 198).
with Archea Gallery, Amsterdam (PAN Art Fair, November 1997).
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, 2004 (Katalog 18, no. 118).
Auktion Kunst Der Antike 222, Gorny & Mosch, Munich, 25 June 2014, lot 109.

Literature

P. Heesen, Athenian Little-Master Cups, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 38, no. 240.
Beazley Pottery Archive Database no. 7280.

Lot Essay

The tondo of this cup depicts Herakles grappling with the Nemean lion. According to Heesen (op. cit., p. 38), "In lip-cups, Herakles and the lion usually both look to the right, while the lion's neck twists round to escape Herakles' stranglehold." (See nos. 34 and 210, plus note 240 for a list of other examples; see also the cup now in Princeton, Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 301472).

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