



The Lloyd and Jeanne Raport Collection (Lots 111-143)
Lot 122*
An Attic red-figure lekythos depicting Eos pursuing Tithonos
4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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An Attic red-figure lekythos depicting Eos pursuing Tithonos
Circa 475-425 B.C.
37cm high
37cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1972, lot 170.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1980, lot 223.
Lloyd and Jeanne Raport Collection, Washington DC and Florida.
Beazley Archive no.3576.
Eos is the goddess, and personification, of the dawn, who every morning drives her chariot bringing daybreak before Helios emerges. Tithonos was a prince of Troy, whom Eos took as one of her many lovers. Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonos immortal, but mistakenly forgot to also ask for eternal youth. In some telling's of the myth Tithonos grows so old Eos turns him into a cicada, explaining why cicadas make so much noise in the morning.