LOT 0068

Attic Black Figure Kylix with Processional Scenes of Satyrs and Maenads and Pegasus

CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.

10 5/8 in. (368 grams, 27 cm wide).

With broad flat foot and short stem, broad bowl with carination at the shoulder and two strap shoulders; under each handle an ivy leaf; a painted frieze in coarse style on the outer face comprising two scenes of satyrs and maenads, some on horseback; the centre with a winged Pegasus; foot restored.

From a private German collection, 1960s.

Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12014-213567.

Cf. the British Museum, museum number 1864,1007.294, for similar, in Walters, H.B., Forsdyke, E.J., Smith, C.H., Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, London, 1893-1895, cat.B441; see another similar example of such Attic black-figure deep-bowled kylix in the Monash University Museum, inv. No.10.26180; for the type of object, see J. Paul Getty Museum, 85.AE.25; British Museum, London, 1852,0707.14, 1864,1007.1526, 1864,1007.1528, 1864,1007.1534, 1906,1215.1, 1906,1215.4, 1952,0204.17; examples with long neck, see Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 06.1021.157, 98.8.16 and Archaeological Museum, Bologna, G597.

The kylix is pertinent to the style of the Haimon painter, who flourished in the first half of 5th century B.C., especially in the rendering of the facial features, and feet. The imagery on the exterior of kylikes used in the symposia varied a lot.