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An Attic black-figure Siana cup

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1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
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An Attic black-figure Siana cup
Attributed to the C Painter, circa 565-560 B.C.
The tondo with a kneeling warrior, wearing a crested helmet and greaves, holding a spear and a circular shield with lion's head device, the scene encircled with a band of alternating red and black tongues, the exterior with a symposium scene, each side with two bearded draped males reclining on klinai, tables with food and foot stools in front, lyres hanging above, nude male komasts wearing red fillets dancing between, details in added red and white, 26.3cm diam. excl. handle, 13cm high

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Provenance:
with Galerie Arete, Zurich.
Private collection, London, acquired from the above 24 June 1981.

Published:
H.A.G. Brijder, Siana Cups I and Komast Cups, Amsterdam, 1983, p. 245, no. 109 (not ill.).

For similar Siana cups from the C Painter's late period, see Wurzburg L 449 (Brijder, ibid., pl. 23c); for the lyre above the couch, Syracuse 49271 (op. cit., pl. 23d); for the composition, and for an example from the C Painter's middle period with one dancer between the couches, Taranto I.G. 4339 (op, cit. pl. 16c).

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