AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED COLUMN-KRATER

ATTRIBUTED TO MYSON, CIRCA 500-480 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED COLUMN-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO MYSON, CIRCA 500-480 B.C.
The obverse with a komast walking to the right and looking back, depicted nude but for a himation draped over his shoulder and outstretched left arm, holding up a skyphos in his hand, a walking stick in his lowered right hand, an ivy wreath in his hair in added red, the neck with dotted lotus bud chain; the reverse with a komast facing left, looking downward, depicted nude, a large vessel held up in both hands before him, an ivy wreath in his hair in added red; two bands in added red encircling the vase below the scenes, rays above the foot, a graffito on the underside of the foot
15½ in. (39.4 cm.) high

Provenance

with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1980.

Lot Essay

Myson is known as the father of the Mannerists. In Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, p. 562, Beazley calls him the "founder of the style; the early Mannerists were his pupils" and are depicted as such in their workshop on a hydria by the Leningrad Painter now in Milan (ARV, 571,73).

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