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Greek Skyphos - Haimon Group Greece, Attic, ca. 480 BCE. This lipless skyphos with narrow base and
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Greek Skyphos - Haimon Group
Greece, Attic, ca. 480 BCE. This lipless skyphos with narrow base and mastoid body ("footed mastos") belongs to Ure's Pistias Class N. The scene on both the obverse and reverse, executed in silhouette, depicts Peleus wrestling with the Nereid Thetis. Below, a series of bands alternately black and brown. Outside edge of lip and exterior of handles glazed. Flanking each handle, upright palmettes in black. Offset foot; on reserved underside, two finely drawn concentric circles about central glazed depression. Size 3-1/4" H (8 cm).
Cf. Haimon Painter, New York, Metropolitan Museum, 41.162.220, CVA Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, pl. 45, 4 A-B, ABV 571.708, 628.10, BAPD no. 330972. See also a mastoid skyphos with Athena seated, holding a helmet, decorated in the manner of the Haimon Painter, Athens, National
Museum, E 1193, CVA Athens, National Museum 4, fig. 16.2 pl. 63, 1-3, ABV 571.709, 628.11, BAPD no. 330973. Other skyphoi of this type, ABV 571.710, 627 f.; J. Mertens, Attic-White Ground. Its development on shapes other than Lekythoi (New York/London 1977), 89 ff. pl. 13, 2-4.
Provenance: Ex-JDC, Götter, Menschen, Wesen, Cat. 14, 2002, no. 22 with ill.
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#108636
Condition
Reassembled from fragments with restoration over break lines.
Greece, Attic, ca. 480 BCE. This lipless skyphos with narrow base and mastoid body ("footed mastos") belongs to Ure's Pistias Class N. The scene on both the obverse and reverse, executed in silhouette, depicts Peleus wrestling with the Nereid Thetis. Below, a series of bands alternately black and brown. Outside edge of lip and exterior of handles glazed. Flanking each handle, upright palmettes in black. Offset foot; on reserved underside, two finely drawn concentric circles about central glazed depression. Size 3-1/4" H (8 cm).
Cf. Haimon Painter, New York, Metropolitan Museum, 41.162.220, CVA Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, pl. 45, 4 A-B, ABV 571.708, 628.10, BAPD no. 330972. See also a mastoid skyphos with Athena seated, holding a helmet, decorated in the manner of the Haimon Painter, Athens, National
Museum, E 1193, CVA Athens, National Museum 4, fig. 16.2 pl. 63, 1-3, ABV 571.709, 628.11, BAPD no. 330973. Other skyphoi of this type, ABV 571.710, 627 f.; J. Mertens, Attic-White Ground. Its development on shapes other than Lekythoi (New York/London 1977), 89 ff. pl. 13, 2-4.
Provenance: Ex-JDC, Götter, Menschen, Wesen, Cat. 14, 2002, no. 22 with ill.
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
#108636
Condition
Reassembled from fragments with restoration over break lines.
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Greek Skyphos - Haimon Group
Greece, Attic, ca. 480 BCE. This lipless skyphos with narrow base and mastoid body ("footed mastos") belongs to Ure's Pistias Class N. The scene on both the obverse and reverse, executed in silhouette, depicts Peleus wrestling with the Nereid Thetis. Below, a series of bands alternately black and brown. Outside edge of lip and exterior of handles glazed. Flanking each handle, upright palmettes in black. Offset foot; on reserved underside, two finely drawn concentric circles about central glazed depression. Size 3-1/4" H (8 cm).
Cf. Haimon Painter, New York, Metropolitan Museum, 41.162.220, CVA Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, pl. 45, 4 A-B, ABV 571.708, 628.10, BAPD no. 330972. See also a mastoid skyphos with Athena seated, holding a helmet, decorated in the manner of the Haimon Painter, Athens, National
Museum, E 1193, CVA Athens, National Museum 4, fig. 16.2 pl. 63, 1-3, ABV 571.709, 628.11, BAPD no. 330973. Other skyphoi of this type, ABV 571.710, 627 f.; J. Mertens, Attic-White Ground. Its development on shapes other than Lekythoi (New York/London 1977), 89 ff. pl. 13, 2-4.
Provenance: Ex-JDC, Götter, Menschen, Wesen, Cat. 14, 2002, no. 22 with ill.
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
#108636
Condition
Reassembled from fragments with restoration over break lines.
Greece, Attic, ca. 480 BCE. This lipless skyphos with narrow base and mastoid body ("footed mastos") belongs to Ure's Pistias Class N. The scene on both the obverse and reverse, executed in silhouette, depicts Peleus wrestling with the Nereid Thetis. Below, a series of bands alternately black and brown. Outside edge of lip and exterior of handles glazed. Flanking each handle, upright palmettes in black. Offset foot; on reserved underside, two finely drawn concentric circles about central glazed depression. Size 3-1/4" H (8 cm).
Cf. Haimon Painter, New York, Metropolitan Museum, 41.162.220, CVA Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, pl. 45, 4 A-B, ABV 571.708, 628.10, BAPD no. 330972. See also a mastoid skyphos with Athena seated, holding a helmet, decorated in the manner of the Haimon Painter, Athens, National
Museum, E 1193, CVA Athens, National Museum 4, fig. 16.2 pl. 63, 1-3, ABV 571.709, 628.11, BAPD no. 330973. Other skyphoi of this type, ABV 571.710, 627 f.; J. Mertens, Attic-White Ground. Its development on shapes other than Lekythoi (New York/London 1977), 89 ff. pl. 13, 2-4.
Provenance: Ex-JDC, Götter, Menschen, Wesen, Cat. 14, 2002, no. 22 with ill.
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
#108636
Condition
Reassembled from fragments with restoration over break lines.
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