An Attic black-figure band cup
Circa 535-530 B.C.
The central band showing King Menelaos, helmeted and holding a sword, clasping his wife Helen of Troy's hand to drag her home to Sparta, the couple flanked by standing attendants and mounted horsemen, with palmettes and flying birds either side of the handles, 5 1/8in (13cm) high; 8½in (21.6cm) diam of bowl, collection no. 13348 inscribed under one handle
Circa 535-530 B.C.
The central band showing King Menelaos, helmeted and holding a sword, clasping his wife Helen of Troy's hand to drag her home to Sparta, the couple flanked by standing attendants and mounted horsemen, with palmettes and flying birds either side of the handles, 5 1/8in (13cm) high; 8½in (21.6cm) diam of bowl, collection no. 13348 inscribed under one handle
Sold for
£9,600
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Footnotes
- Provenance:
Ex Dutch private collection.
Exhibited:
Formerly on loan to the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, inv. no. B 13.348.
Published:
H.A.G. Brijder, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, the Netherlands - fasc.8, Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam, 'Attic Black-Figure Drinking Cups', fasc.2 (1996), pl. 104-5, pp. 74-5. This subject is very rare on band-cups: the only other known example is in the Archaeological Museum Thessaloniki, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, vol.91, (1970), p.362, figs.1-2.
Category: Antiquities
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