A PAESTAN APPLIED RED SQUAT LEKYTHOS

WORKSHOP OF ASTEAS AND PYTHON, CIRCA 350-330 B.C.

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A PAESTAN APPLIED RED SQUAT LEKYTHOS
WORKSHOP OF ASTEAS AND PYTHON, CIRCA 350-330 B.C.
With a seated sphinx in profile to the left, her wings upraised, framed on either side by flowering tendrils, dotted rosettes in the field; lines on the neck, a palmette below the handle
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. Ulrich Hahn, Cologne, 1970s.

Lot Essay

For Paestan vases decorated in applied red see Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Paestum, Appendix I. For a kylix and a lebes gamikos each with a siren with similar treatment of the wing of this sphinx, both from the Workshop of Asteas and Python, see nos. 25 and 39 in Trendall, op. cit.

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