Details
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED BAND CUP
NEAR THE TLESON PAINTER, CIRCA 540-530 B.C.
Each side decorated with a central white hen flanked by two confronting swans, their wings outstretched and heads bent down, and two grazing goats, details incised and in added white and red, on high stemmed foot
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) diam. excl. handles
Provenance
with N. Koutoulakis, 1948.
The Christos G. Bastis Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 1999, lot 88.
Exhibited
Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987.
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