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

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

Depicting a music lesson, with youthful lyre-player seated on a stool covered with a folded cloth, supporting his lyre which is kept upright on his lap by means of a band (in added red) attached to his left wrist; the tortoise-shell sounding-box is half-hidden behind his draped forearm; in his right hand he holds a plectrum and stops the strings with his left fingers. Before him stands a nude youth, holding out his arms, the right higher than the left as though imitating the actionof the lyre-player. In the field above are two crossed bars (the detached head of a torch). Above is a meander band interrupted by four squares each encompassing a cross and dots; around the shoulder are black palmettes and a tongue pattern at the base of the neck

Condition: intact; slightly scuffed in places

11 1/8in. (28.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Beazley, ARV², 557, no. 119 bis; Follmann, Der Pan-maler, 69 and 112

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