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LOT 0078
Greek Blackware Kantharos
5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
8 1/8 in. (381 grams, 20.5 cm wide).
With broad disc foot, drum-shaped bowl with carinated lower edge, flared rim, two ribbed strap handles rising above the rim; below on each face vine tendrils in a splayed array.
ProvenanceFrom a West Coast collection, Devon, UK, 1980s.
LiteratureCf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 1993.197, for a similar 5th century Boeotian example.
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LOT 0078
Greek Blackware Kantharos
Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)
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The Iliupersis Painter was a south Italic Greek vase painter whose name is unknown. The name derives from a represented scene in a volute crater in the British Museum depicting the sacking of Troy (Iliou Persis). The characteristic pillar-shaped monument depicted here can be seen also on the MET hydria, where the closed foot of the woman corresponds in detail to the one on our vase. The Iliupersis Painter was a prolific and innovative artist, active just before mid 4th century B.C., whose work set the standard for the large, ornate-style vases of the second half of the same century: volute-kraters with plastic masks on the volutes, increased polychromy, complex floral ornament, multilevel compositions, mourners surrounding funerary naiskoi and stelei.
