Lot Essay
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THE PROPERTY OF A LOUISIANA COLLECTION
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS
CIRCA MID 5TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS
CIRCA MID 5TH CENTURY B.C.
With Eros flying to the right, depicted nude, his wings outstretched behind him, his legs curled back, a fillet in his hair, a joint of meat in his lowered right hand, a tray with cloth in his extended left hand; a reserved groundline below the scene, meander with a crossed square above, palmettes on the shoulders; together with a fragment from the tondo of an Attic red-figured kylix, preserving a youth in profile to the right, nude but for a mantle draped over his left side, his right arm reaching forward, a fillet in added white in his hair
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA MID 5TH CENTURY B.C.
With Eros flying to the right, depicted nude, his wings outstretched behind him, his legs curled back, a fillet in his hair, a joint of meat in his lowered right hand, a tray with cloth in his extended left hand; a reserved groundline below the scene, meander with a crossed square above, palmettes on the shoulders; together with a fragment from the tondo of an Attic red-figured kylix, preserving a youth in profile to the right, nude but for a mantle draped over his left side, his right arm reaching forward, a fillet in added white in his hair
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Lekythos:
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, 1997 (Kunst der Antike, Katalog 12, no. 196).
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, 1997 (Kunst der Antike, Katalog 12, no. 196).