An Attic Red-figured Cup, attributed to the Brygos Painter, circa 470 B.C.

with spreading foot and offset rim, the tondo painted with a seated youth holding a staff and wearing a long cloak draped over the lower part of his body, his right hand clasped to his left shoulder, a lyre suspended in the field.

acquired in Rome in the mid to late 1960s

Repaired from two large fragments and two smaller fragments with in-painting along areas of black glaze, main break line runs across face and upper body of seated figure as shown, losses to glaze on one handle and surrounding area below rim.
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There is an old sticker with cut corners and red border under the foot inscribed in ink "5859 / Se(?)."

For a similar seated youth by the same painter see J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painting, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1963, p. 374, 61 (F. Beck, Album of Greek Education, Sidney, 1975, pl. 28.154-155).