Lot 5
  • 5

An Attic Black-figured Eye Cup, attributed to a follower of the Krokotos Workshop, circa 500 B.C.

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • An Attic Black-figured Eye Cup, attributed to a follower of the Krokotos Workshop
  • Terracotta
  • Diameter at rim 9 1/4 in. 23.5 cm.
a gorgoneion in the tondo, the exterior painted with apotropaic eyes flanking Dionysos on one side and a maenad on the other, dotted vines in the field, rays above the foot.

Provenance

George Allen, Hesperia Art, Philadelphia
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Art of Antiquity. Selections from the Stock of Royal-Athena Galleries, April 29th-30th, 1964, no. 272, illus.

Literature

Hesperia Art Bulletin, Bulletin XVI, no. 96, illus.
Jeanne Aline Jordan, Attic Black-figured Eye-Cups, diss., New York University, New York, 1988, p. 79, no. C 111, pl. XXVII, 3

Condition

Mended from several fragments with in-painting along breaklines clearly visible in photos, small chip on rim.
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