Bonhams 1793 : An Attic red-figure stemmed kylix

An Attic red-figure stemmed kylix
Attributed to the Painter of the Yale Cup, circa 500-450 B.C.
The tondo depicting a youth draped in a himation and wearing sandals, advancing to make an offering at the altar in front of him, the exterior with an incised figural scene and palmette, unfinished and glazed over in black, 11in (28cm) wide including handles

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Footnotes

Provenance:
American private collection acquired in 2007.
Brussels private collection, formed 1960-70.

Published:
Galerie Grenier, L'Antiquite Revelee, Paris, 2007 no. 4.

Literature:
For a very similar but fragmentary scene in Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina, T212BVP, cf. J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1963, 396.31; T.H. Carpenter, T. Mannack & M. Mendonca, Beazley Addenda, Oxford, 1989, 230.

The unfinished drawing on the exterior could be a preliminary sketch 'incised' before painting, but then the painter changed his mind. For another example, cf. the Kleophrades Painter amphora in Harrow, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Harrow Museum, 10-13, pls.1033,1034, 13.1-2, 14.1-2. For further discussion, cf. P. E. Corbett, 'Preliminary Sketch in Greek Vase-Painting', JHS vol. 85, 1965, 16-28, pls. IIb and III.