A LARGE MIDDLE CORINTHIAN POTTERY STEMMED PYXIS AND LID, BY THE GELADAKIS PAINTER

600-575 B.C.

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A LARGE MIDDLE CORINTHIAN POTTERY STEMMED PYXIS AND LID, BY THE GELADAKIS PAINTER
600-575 B.C.
With rounded body on tall stem foot and with two vertical handles, the body decorated with frieze showing two large bearded male busts facing each other, with a siren to either side and three panthers and a grazing goat, rosette and dot infill, a triple band of dots between double lines above and band of tongues below rim, the lower body painted black with reserved line, the foot stem with frieze of goats between sets of four horizontal lines, three Greek letters painted in red under the foot, the lid with concentric black and red circles, repaired
11¾ in. (20 cm.) high incl. lid

Provenance

Acquired in Basle, 1982.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
D. A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period, Berkeley, 1988, p. 349, A32bis.
Cf. H. Payne, Necrocorinthia: A study of Corinthian Art in the Archaic Period, Oxford, 1931, no. 908, pl. 29, a pyxis with almost identical decorative scheme and frieze of confronting male heads, sirens, goats and panthers.

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