CIRCA 450 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED GLAUX
CIRCA 450 B.C.
One side with Hypnos, winged god of sleep, dozing upon an altar inscribed <->kalos<->, his arms wrapped around his knees which are bent to his chest, his head turned frontal, resting on his arms; the other side with a draped youth striding to the right between two altars, holding a torch in his outstretched right hand, a lyre in his left
3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) high

Provenance

with Rhea Galerie, Zurich, 1998.

Literature

A.J. Paul, Exhibition catalogue, A View into Antiquity: Pottery from the Collection of William Suddaby and David Meier, Tampa, 2001, no. 21, illus.

Exhibited

Tampa Museum of Art, A View into Antiquity: Pottery from the Collection of William Suddaby and David Meier, 14 October 2001-13 January 2002.