A MYCENAEAN BUFF-WARE POTTERY KYLIX, LATE HELLADIC IIIA2, LATE 14TH/FIRST THIRD OF THE 13TH CENTURY B.C. | A Mycenaean Buff-ware Pottery Kylix

with slender stem flaring into a deep conical bowl with slightly everted rim and twin handles, the exterior decorated on one side with a combined octopus and flower motif, encircling bands on the stem and foot.

Münzen & Medaillen, Basel, Auktion 51, March 14th/15th, 1975, no. 39, illus.
Christie’s, Amsterdam, February 21st, 1985, no. 282
private collection, Amsterdam, acquired at the above sale

Kunst-en Antiekveiling, 1986, p. 242, p. 13, illus.

Repaired from several fragments; two small fragments restored along the rim; stem repaired about 1/3rd of the way up from the foot and entirely painted over and varnished; painted octopus motif slightly misfired.
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For a closely related example see A.J.B. Wace, Chamber tombs at Mycenae (Archaeologia, vol. 82), 1932, pl. 16b. For the form see A. Furumark, The Mycenaean Pottery. Analysis and Classification, 1941, Form 79, 257, pl. 17; for the decoration see Furumark, op. cit., motif 18:34, fig. 44. Also see Sotheby’s, New York, December 5th, 2007, no. 38.