An Attic Red-Figured Janiform Kantharos, attributed to the Syriskos Painter, circa 480-470 B.C.

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Property from a European Private Collection

An Attic Red-Figured Janiform Kantharos

attributed to the Syriskos Painter, circa 480-470 B.C.

the body moulded on one side with the head of a bearded satyr and on the other with the head of a woman, the neck painted on one side with a reclining maenad holding a cup and a satyr playing pipes and on the other with Dionysos reclining before a hanging wineskin, a vine in the background.

Height 19 cm.

Dr. S. Schweizer, Arlesheim and Breganzona

Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, Kunstwerke der Antike, no. 40, December 13th, 1969, no. 104, pl. 44

private collection, Boulogne-sur-Seine

by descent to the present owner

Published

Karl Schefold, Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst, Basel, 1960, no. 218, p. 205

John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1963, p. 266, no. 84, p. 1539, no. 7, and p. 1641

István Rácz, Antikes Erbe. Meisterwerke aus Schweizer Sammlungen, Zurich, 1965, pl. 56

John D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 351

Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 202765 (http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/5BF07794-FE68-4256-BC0B-ACFEF0F46D6D)

'Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst', Kunsthalle, Basel, June 18th - September 13th, 1960

For a closely related vase by the same hand, also with symposium scenes on the neck, see Museum of Fine Arts Boston, acc. no. 95.37 (https://collections.mfa.org/objects/190/janiform-drinking-cup-kantharos)