A PAESTAN APPLIED RED SQUAT LEKYTHOS

WORKSHOP OF ASTEAS AND PYTHON, CIRCA 350-330 B.C.

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A PAESTAN APPLIED RED SQUAT LEKYTHOS
WORKSHOP OF ASTEAS AND PYTHON, CIRCA 350-330 B.C.
With a seated sphinx in profile to the left, her wings upraised, framed on either side by flowering tendrils, dotted rosettes in the field; lines on the neck, a palmette below the handle
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. Ulrich Hahn, Cologne, 1970s.

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For Paestan vases decorated in applied red see Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Paestum, Appendix I. For a kylix and a lebes gamikos each with a siren with similar treatment of the wing of this sphinx, both from the Workshop of Asteas and Python, see nos. 25 and 39 in Trendall, op. cit.

WORKSHOP OF ASTEAS AND PYTHON, CIRCA 350-330 B.C.

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