AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE LEKYTHOS, attributed to the Brygos Painter, circa 480-470 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE LEKYTHOS, attributed to the Brygos Painter, circa 480-470 B.C.

Depicting a nude athlete scraping himself with a strigil, he stands with weight on his left leg, his right leg bent forwards, whilst he looks back. He wears an athlete's cap. His left arm is extended and he scrapes his right shoulder and back with his right arm; a suspended aryballos and strigil or jumping weight seen in profile are in the field to the right; to the left is a low column with his draped mantle; a meander band below, and ovolo band below neck

Condition: unevenly fired; composed from fragments with handle and part of neck restored; slight retouching to the right hand

11¼in. (28.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
M. und M., Auktion 40, 13 Dezember 1969, 56, no. 94, (Cahn sees the inscription *AI to the left of the figure); Sonderliste N, May 1971, no. 19. Cahn refers to similar sculptures of athletes, the Apoxyomenos by Lysippus and the Scraper from Ephesus

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