AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED KYLIX

ATTRIBUTED TO THE BOWDOIN-EYE PAINTER CIRCA 510 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED KYLIX
attributed to the bowdoin-eye painter
circa 510 b.c.
The small tondo with a young athlete bending forward, gripping halteres (weights) in each hand in preparation for the jump, his hair outlined with incision, a kalos inscription to the right; each side of the exterior with three exercising youths, their hair similarly outlined, the scenes nearly identical but for folded garments on a table on one side, in the center a youth moving right but looking left tests the grip of his javelin, to his right a youth runs to the left, his javelin raised and ready to be thrown, and to the left a youth prepares to hurl a discus, a ribbed palmette on either side of each handle, a smaller three-frond palmette below
13¼ in. (33.65 cm) diameter

Literature

Guy in Leipen, et al., Glimpses of Excellence, A Selection of Greek Vases and Bronzes from the Elie Borowski Collection, no. 8.

Exhibited

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 18 December 1984 to 30 June 1985

Lot Essay

According to Beazley (Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vol. 1, p. 166) "the Bowdoin-Eye Painter was a companion of the Scheurleer Painter and of the Nikosthenes Painter in his earliest phase." Compare for example the palmettes on the palmette-eye cup, lot 72 in this sale, which is tentatively attributed to the Scheurleer Painter.

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