ATTRIBUTED TO THE TARQUINIA PAINTER, CIRCA 460 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED KYLIX
ATTRIBUTED TO THE TARQUINIA PAINTER, CIRCA 460 B.C.
9 1⁄8 in. (23.2 cm.) diam. excl. handles

Provenance

Said to be from Etruria, possibly Tarquinia.
Collection of British government official, stationed in Italy, circa 1870; thence by descent, England.
English private collection, acquired circa 1923.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1966, lot 120.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 13-14 July 1987, lot 399.
with Charles Ede, London (Pottery from Athens, 1990, no. 28).
Thomas C. Simiele, Ohio, acquired from the above, 1990.
The Property of Thomas C. Simiele, Ohio; Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 7 December 2011, lot 109.

Literature

J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 427, no. 77bis.
J.-L. Durand and F. Lissarrague, "Un Lieu d'Image?, L'espace du louterion," Hephaistos, vol. 2, 1990, p. 98, fig. 14.
T.H. Carpenter, Beazley Addenda, second edition, Oxford, 1989, p. 300, no. 870.77bis.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 276018.

Exhibited

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2012-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA786).

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Lot Essay

The tondo is framed by a band of meander and decorated with a youth at a laver, standing in profile to the left, his torso turned three-quarter frontal. He wears a voluminous himation draped over his left shoulder, leaving his right shoulder exposed and with his arm extending forward with his hand above the laver. Two attributes, perhaps a sandal and a stylus, appear hanging behind him.

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