AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE POTTERY KYLIX PROBABLY THE PAINTER OF ATHENS 1237, CIRCA 470-460 B.C. The tondo decorated with an inquisitive satyr bending forward, his heels raised, with his head and shoulders immersed in an open chest with lion paw foot, the lid propped open, set within a meander border 8cm high, 16cm diameter Provenance: European art market. European private collection, acquired in 1995. Christie's New York, 8 June 2005, lot 90, where purchased by Robert Kime Exhibited: Walters Art Gallery, 5 November 1995 - 7 January 1996; Dallas Museum of Art, 4 February - 31 March, 1996, and at the Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, 28 April - 23 June 1996Literature: Ellen D. Reeder et al, Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995), p.100, fig.15. François Lissarrague La cité des satyres: Une anthropologie ludique (Athènes, VIe-Ve siècle avant J-C), (Paris 2013), p.209, fig.181. Beazley Archive no.20361, unillustrated and unattributed. The decoration on this drinking cup has been newly attributed as likely to be a work by the Painter of Athens 1237 (ARV2 865), a follower of the Pistoxenos Painter.Chests such as the one depicted in this scene have appeared on vases representing a scene from the life of Perseus, a Greek hero known for slaying the Gorgon Medusa. He was the son of the god Zeus and the mortal Danae, whose father Acrisius of Argos had been warned by an oracle that he would be slain by his grandson. So, when Danae had given birth to her son Perseus, his grandfather Acrisius, arranged for his daughter and grandson to be set adrift in a wooden casket. Cf. Beazley Archive no. 202466, for a hydria in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 13.200, with a similar casket from the scene of the banishment of Perseus and Danae.
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE POTTERY KYLIX PROBABLY THE PAINTER OF ATHENS 1237, CIRCA 470-460 B.C. The tondo decorated with an inquisitive satyr bending forward, his heels raised, with his head and shoulders immersed in an open chest with lion paw foot, the lid propped open, set within a meander border 8cm high, 16cm diameter Provenance: European art market. European private collection, acquired in 1995. Christie's New York, 8 June 2005, lot 90, where purchased by Robert Kime Exhibited: Walters Art Gallery, 5 November 1995 - 7 January 1996; Dallas Museum of Art, 4 February - 31 March, 1996, and at the Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, 28 April - 23 June 1996Literature: Ellen D. Reeder et al, Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995), p.100, fig.15. François Lissarrague La cité des satyres: Une anthropologie ludique (Athènes, VIe-Ve siècle avant J-C), (Paris 2013), p.209, fig.181. Beazley Archive no.20361, unillustrated and unattributed. The decoration on this drinking cup has been newly attributed as likely to be a work by the Painter of Athens 1237 (ARV2 865), a follower of the Pistoxenos Painter.Chests such as the one depicted in this scene have appeared on vases representing a scene from the life of Perseus, a Greek hero known for slaying the Gorgon Medusa. He was the son of the god Zeus and the mortal Danae, whose father Acrisius of Argos had been warned by an oracle that he would be slain by his grandson. So, when Danae had given birth to her son Perseus, his grandfather Acrisius, arranged for his daughter and grandson to be set adrift in a wooden casket. Cf. Beazley Archive no. 202466, for a hydria in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 13.200, with a similar casket from the scene of the banishment of Perseus and Danae.
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