AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED EYE-CUP

CIRCA 530-520 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED EYE-CUP
CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
With details added in red and white, decorated on both sides with a maenad clutching vines in each hand, flanked by large eyes, vines and grape bunches either side of the handles, the stems intertwining between, rays around the base, a red band at the top of the stem, with details added in white and red, the interior with concentric circles on a reserved tondo
14½ in. (36.8 cm.) diam. incl. handles

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 18 May 1987, lot 263.

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Lot Essay

For the shape, subject and decorative scheme of spiralling vines beneath the handles, cf. Adophseck, Schloss Fasanerie 18, CVA 1, pl. 17.1-3; Haifa Maritime Museum 262; and W. Hornbostel, Aus Gräbern und Heiligtumern, 1980, no. 67.

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