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Lot 63

An Attic red-figure chous

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
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An Attic red-figure chous
Circa 420-410 B.C.
Trefoil-lipped and with a ribbed handle, the body depicting a symposium scene, with a partially draped figure, probably Dionysus, reclining on a kline, resting on a striped cushion and holding a kantharos, with a low table in the foreground, a draped musician seated before him, playing a lyre, his long hair bound in an ivy wreath, a nude youthful satyr (?) standing to the left, depicted with a goat's chin, holding a tray, his hair bound in an ivy wreath, an aryballos hanging in the field, a band of dotted ovolo below, a band of foliate dotted ovolo above, 22cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Conradty collection, South Germany.
with Cahn AG, Basel.
Drs Gerd and Sigrid von der Gönna collection, Germany, acquired from the above 18 October 2008.
Beazley archive no. 19741.

Published:
E. Simon, Mythen und Menschen. Griechische Vasenkunst aus einer deutschen Privatsammlung, Mainz, 1997, p. 138-9, no. 38.

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