AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED EYE-CUP
ATTRIBUTED TO THE NIKOSTHENIC WORKSHOP, CIRCA 530-520 B.C.
Each side with two large eyes with added white, eyebrows and nose, flanked by nude running youths, rays and concentric bands on lower body, foot and handles black-glazed, interior black-glazed, the reserved tondo with black circle and dot
8 ¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diam. excl. handles
Provenance
with Pino Donati Gallery, 1965.
Cavadini collection, Switzerland.
with Donati Arte Classica, Lugano, from whom acquired by the present owner in 1996.