Greek Attic Black-Figure Mastoid Cup by the Caylus Painter

5TH CENTURY BC

6 1/2" (125 grams, 16.5cm).

An Attic black-figure mastoid cup by the Caylus painter, both sides decorated with a winged goddess flanked by youths sitting on blocks or folding chairs; the winged females with white skin and eyes in applied red; some figures with red diadems, youths wearing cloaks with red bordures and white triple dots, two also clad in himatia (mantles) rendered with large white blobs; leafless branches and grapes in the field, single ivy leaves below the handles.

Provenance

Property of a Swiss collector; formerly in a private collection formed in the 1990s.

Literature

For almost identical youths cf. the kyathos CVA Tarquinia, Museo Nazionale 2, III.H.12, pl.(1190) 41.5.

Footnotes

The cup was executed by the Caylus Painter, an associate of the Leafless Group.

CONDITION

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LOT 0091

Greek Attic Black-Figure Mastoid Cup by the Caylus Painter

Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,108

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