SIGNED BY TALEIDES AS POTTER, CIRCA 550-540 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED BAND-CUP
SIGNED BY TALEIDES AS POTTER, CIRCA 550-540 B.C.
8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) diam. excl. handles

Provenance

Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen AG., Basel, Auktion 26, 5 October, 1963, no. 100, pl. 32.
Thomas T. Solley, Bloomington, Indiana.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, January 20th, 1967, lot 205.
Sideo Fromboluti (1920-2014) and Nora Speyer (b.1923), Pennsylvania and New York.
Property from the collection of Sideo Fromboluti and Nora Speyer; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 8 June 2011, lot 7.

Literature

J. D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 74.
P. Heesen, Athenian Little-master Cups, Amsterdam, 2011, cat. no. 131, figs. 57a-b, 58b, pl. 42d.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 350513.

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Lot Essay

The encircling band of this cup is signed on each side: "Taleides made (it)." It is the only known band cup by the potter Taleides, who also made one signed and four unsigned Siana cups and seven signed lip-cups. See Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 301134, for a lip-cup signed by Taleides. Other signed pieces include an amphora, three oinochoai, a lekythos, loutrophoros and pyxis.

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