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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED KYLIX
RELATED TO THE THALIA PAINTER, CIRCA LATE 6TH CENTURY B.C.
The tondo with a discobolus, the nude athlete stepping forward to the right, the discus in his right hand, his left arm bent at the elbow and lowered, his head angled forward, a fillet in added red in his hair, two javelins before him, halteras (jumping weights) to either side, an aryballos, a sponge and a strigil hanging above, a kalos inscription in the field, preceded by an illegible name, the second letter of which is E; all enclosed within a thin reserved band
7¾ in. (19.6 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Charles T. Seltman, 1886-1957.
Arthur Stone Dewing, 1880-1971, Boston; and thence by descent to his daughter Mary Morain (d. 1999), and her husband Lloyd (d. 2010).
Acquired by the current owner as a gift from Lloyd Morain.
Literature
J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1963, no. 114.1.
J. Oleson and D. Buitron, Coins and Vases of Arthur Stone Dewing, Cambridge, 1971, no. 10.
H. Immerwahr, Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), https://avi.unibas.ch/home.html, no. 3061A.
Beazley Archive no. 200967.
Exhibited
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1961-1963; and 1965-2002.
Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 11 March - 15 April, 1971; and 2002.
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