ATTRIBUTED TO THE ANCONA PAINTER, CIRCA 470-460 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED KYLIX
ATTRIBUTED TO THE ANCONA PAINTER, CIRCA 470-460 B.C.
15 ½ in. (39.5 cm.) diam. incl. handles

Provenance

with Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, May 1971 (Attische rotfigurige Vasen, Sonderliste N, no. 80).
Antiquities, Sotheby’s, London, 10-11 December 1984, lot 43.
with Charles Ede, London, 1985 (Pottery from Athens VIII, 1985, no. 25).
J.O. Sund, New South Wales, Australia; acquired from the above 23 April 1985.

Literature

J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2, Oxford, 1963, Addenda 1, p.1673, Pp. 874-5, 4bis.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 275397.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This cup is decorated on the exterior with a Dionysiac scene. To one side, Maenads are shown disporting themselves, one in the embrace of a satyr, one dancing and brandishing a snake in her left hand, and the third with her chiton pulled down over her arms to give the effect of wings. The other side of the exterior has a similar scene with four of the figures dancing and a bandy-legged satyr in the centre, right hand lifted to shade his eyes as he watched the revels. The tondo is decorated with a satyr and maenad holding a thyrsos. With graffiti incised on the underside of the foot.

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