AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS

ATTRIBUTED TO THE OIONOKLES PAINTER CIRCA 470 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS
attributed to the oionokles painter
circa 470 b.c.
With a bearded reveler walking to the right wearing a chiton and placing a himation with a striped border over his shoulders, an edge held high in his right hand, his hair bound in a sakkos, holding his barbiton in his left hand from which is suspended a basket covered with a folded cloth, the cord of the basket and an inscription reading ho pais kalos in added red, with bands of meander above and below, palmettes and tendrils on the shoulders with dotted egg above
161/8 in. (40.95 cm) high

Provenance

Galerie Günter Puhze, Katalog 8, 1989, no. 211

Lot Essay

For a lyre-player in similar garb identified by an inscription as Anakreon (the Ionian poet who came to Athens in the late 6th century) see the calyx krater fragment by the Kleophrades Painter in Copenhagen, no. 131 in Boardman, Athenian Red Figured Vases, The Archaic Period.

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