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Lot 46

An Attic red-figure kylix

1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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An Attic red-figure kylix
Attributed to the Pithos Painter, circa 525-475 B.C.
The tondo depicting a youth in a Scythian cap with a drinking horn, a basket(?) suspended, 24cm diam. incl. handles

Footnotes

Provenance:
with Spink, London.
Private collection, London.

Published:
J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1963, p. 140, no. 41.
Beazley Archive no. 201198.

For a similar scene of a reclined Scythian at a symposium by the Pithos Painter see J. Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases the Archaic Period, London, 1975, fig. 128. Named for his depictions of pithoi, the Pithos Painter is known for his abstract style of painting.

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