Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Various Properties
Lot 54

An Attic red-figure stemless kylix

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

£1,500 - £2,000

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Antiquities specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

An Attic red-figure stemless kylix
Attributed to the Calliope Painter, circa 430-420 B.C.
The tondo depicting a standing nude youth, probably an athlete, facing right, holding a javelin in his proper right hand, 23cm diam. inc. handles

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Charterhouse School collection, London, by 1921.
The Charterhouse Collection; Sotheby's, London, 5 November 2002, lot 52 (part lot).
Private collection, UK, acquired from the above sale.

For a closely related kylix, also by the Calliope Painter and with a similar standing athlete in the tondo, see Beazley Archive no. 10579, from Aleria, Corsica, Musée Archeologique, acc. no. 67.302.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Mesopotamian clay cuneiform foundation cone with dedication inscription of King Lipit-Ishtar of Isin

A small Mesopotamian clay cuneiform foundation cone inscribed for King Sin-Kashid of Uruk

A Neo-Assyrian or Neo-Hittite bronze helmet with pelta-shaped cheek-pieces

An Attic pottery tankard with geometric decoration

A Greek pottery alabastron in the form of a greaved leg

A Greek terracotta female figure with a bird perched on her shoulder