ATTRIBUTED TO THE EUCHARIDES PAINTER, CIRCA 490-480 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED PELIKE
ATTRIBUTED TO THE EUCHARIDES PAINTER, CIRCA 490-480 B.C.
15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) high

Provenance

with Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, 1977 (Antiken Vasen, Sonderliste R, no. 50).
Dr. Dragisa Momirovic, Germany.
Greek Vases from the Momirovic Collection; Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1994, lot 331.

Literature

R.-M. Becker, Formen attischer Peliken von der Pionier-Gruppe bis zum Beginn der Frühklassik, Boblingen, 1977, vol. I, p. 33, no. 107a.
M. Robertson, "Two Pelikai by the Pan Painter," Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, vol. 3, Malibu, 1986, p. 82, fig. 3, p. 83.
I. Peschel, Die Hetäre bei Symposium und Komos in der Attisch-Rotfigurigen Vasenmalerei des 6.-4. Jahrh. v. Chr., Frankfurt, 1987, p. 192, pl. 144.
C. Reinsberg, Ehe, Hetarentum und Knabenliebe im antiken Griechenland, Munich, 1989, pp. 194-195, fig. 109.
M.F. Kilmer, Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases, London, 1993, pp. 16, 88, 171 and 247, fig. R371.
N.B. Kampen et al., Sexuality in Ancient Art, Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 90 and 92, fig. 39.
M. Barbanera, "Dikaios eros?," Workshop di archeologia classica, Paesaggi, construzioni, reperti, 6, Rome, 2009, p. 54, fig. 1.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 13607.

Lot Essay

Depicted on the obverse of this pelike is an intercrural lovemaking scene between a bearded man and a youth. The column to the right and the sponge, aryballos and strigil hanging above indicate that the action is taking place in the palaistra. Seated at the base of the column is a young boy holding the man's staff, who is likely his slave. To the left is a large tree covered in ivy. The reverse shows a youth playing the double flute and a draped girl playing krotola.

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