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Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,900
CIRCA 460 B.C.
6 in. (121 grams, 15.2 cm).
From a kylix, the inside painted with two young naked athletes within a medallion, conversing and cleaning their bodies with a strigil, the edge of the medallion decorated with a series of meanders and four crosses; the outside with two naked athletes and other figures, divided by foliage ornaments and volutes.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in before 2005.
Private collection, Europe.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11805-206818.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases. The Archaic period, London, 1975, figs.369-370.
FOOTNOTES:
The Euaion painter was a prolific artist of about 460 B.C. His painting - already in the manneristic period of the Attic red figures vases - was more nearly classical in style, although the ancestry of his small-headed, slim figures, is very evident. He introduced a high, sometimes patterned ground line for an upright two-figure group, and preferred the old elaborately patterned borders for tondos and the ground lines outside cups.
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