AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE HYDRIA, 470-460 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE HYDRIA, 470-460 B.C.

Depicting Eos and Tithonos, the winged goddess, wearing a long-sleeved chiton and bordered himation, her hair tied under a sakkos, pursues the fleeing youth. Nude apart from a himation which he tries to hold as it slips off his left shoulder, the youth looks back over his shoulder; he holds a lyre in his right hand. Behind the goddess stands another youth with long unkempt hair, wearing a himation. He holds a lyre with a tortoise-shell sounding box; he looks back as he moves towards the left. On baseline of meanders interrupted with crosses within squares
Band of sloping double palmettes below neck and shallow ovolo border below the rim and around handle attachments

Condition: repaired with minor restoration, but substantially complete; back of head and left shoulder of Tithonos restored; area on the right foot of the other youth restored

13 5/8in. (34.5cm.) high

來源

Sligo Collection
At the height of the Napoleonic Wars the young 2nd Marquess of Sligo (1788-1845), cruising in the Mediterranean in his brig (12 gun), bribed seamen on an English man-o-war to transport his Grecian antiquities. This resulted in a fine of #5,000 at the Old Bailey and a stay at Newgate prison in 1812. His widowed mother, however, went on to marry the judge who convicted him.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Beazley, ARV², 509, in which he notes that the palmettes are close to those on the Painter of Florence Stamnoi; S. Kaempf-Dimitriadou, Die Liebe der Götter in der attischen Kunst des 5 Jhr v. Chr., Antike Kunst, Beiheft 11, 1979, 89, no. 31; C. Weiss, LIMC, III, 765, no. 140.

Eos was the goddess of the dawn, daugher of Hyperion and Thia or Euyphassa (or of Pallas according to Ovid). Every morning at dawn she rose from the couch of her lover, Tithonos, and saffron-robed in a purple chariot drawn by swift horses, ascended up to heaven from the Ocean to announce the coming light of the sun. She carried off several youths distinguished for their beauty such as Orion, Kephalos and Tithonos, by the last of whom she bore a son, Memnon