


An Attic black-figure cup with Dionysiac tondo scene
£3,000 - £5,000
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An Attic black-figure cup with Dionysiac tondo scene
11.7cm high, 22cm diam
Footnotes
Provenance:
Antiquities, Sotheby's, 8 December 1980, lot 237 (not ill. in catalogue).
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York.
Lloyd and Jeanne Raport Collection, Washington DC and Florida, acquired from the above, 17 November 1984.
The tondo of the drinking cup depicts a Dionysiac scene of the god of wine flanked by a dancing satyr and a maenad. It belongs to a small number of average sized band-cups with interior decoration. The tongue border is not scalloped, the red tongues are painted directly on the clay and there are no relief lines between the tongues, details pointing to a fairly late date. For a similar tongue border, see band-cup in St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: NF 89.57 (Beazley Archive no. 9026608).