





An Attic black-figure eye-cup with gorgoneion tondo
£6,000 - £8,000
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An Attic black-figure eye-cup with gorgoneion tondo
32cm diam including handles, 10cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Karl Donndorf (1870-1941) Collection, Stuttgart, Germany, acquired prior to 1941, thence by descent.
Asiatika, Afrikana und Aussereuropäische Kunst, Kaupp, Sulzburg, 8 December 2012, lot 4491.
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired at the above sale.
Karl Donndorf was a son of the sculptor Adolf von Donndorf. After training with his father and at the Stuttgart Art School, he continued his studies in Dresden, Paris and Rome.
Published:
Kallos Gallery, London, cat. 8, September 2020, pp. 10-11, no.4.
The eyes and gorgoneion tondo serve to ward off evil. For a similar example of a black-figure eye-cup, with a gorgoneion tondo and Dionysian imagery, see J.C. Hoppin, E. Champion (ed.), A Handbook of Greek Black-Figured Vases, Paris, 1923, p.213.