Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Property from a European Private Collection
An Attic Red-Figured Janiform Kantharos, attributed to the Syriskos Painter, circa 480-470 B.C.
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December 6, 03:36 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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)
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)