AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE PELIKE, attributed to the Pan Painter, 480-470 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE PELIKE, attributed to the Pan Painter, 480-470 B.C.

Side A: a bearded kitharode, wearing a wreath in his hair, mounts a two-tiered platform; the plectrum-string which is in added red, hangs over his right wrist; a broad ribbon decorated with small crosses hangs down from the base of the kithara. On the upper step is inscribed KALOS; on broad meander base, interrupted with a cross within a square
Side B: a bearded competition judge with ivy(?) wreath in added red, with his right index finger raised, holding a stick in his left hand; on similar meander border

Base: incised Etruscan symbol

Condition: intact

10¾in. (27.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Antike Kunst, pt. 1, 1977, 1; Notable Works of Art now on the Market, Burlington Magazine, June 1977, pls. 2 and 3; R.-M. Becker, Formen attischer Peliken, Böblingen, 1979, Katalogband, 49, no. 139a; for the Pan Painter's pelikai, cf., C. M. Robertson, Two pelikai by the Pan Painter, Greek Vases in the J. P. Getty Museum, 3, 1986, 71-90; id., The Art of Vase Painting in Classical Athens, esp. 145.

"Pupil of Myson: a mannerist, and connected with the earlier members of the Mannerist Group, but far above them: an exquisite artist". Beazley, ARV², 550

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