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Attic Red-Figure Kylix by the Pithos Painter, 510-500 BC

Cup with a reclining male figure wearing a kidaris (lappet cap or Phrygian cap). The youth is leaning to the left with his head turned to the right. His body is seen from behind.

Below a drinking horn rendered in black glaze and some cushions.

Symposium scenes are a distinctive motif of the Pithos painter, an early red-figure artist known for his masterly abstraction.

Rather close in design is item no. 128 in: John Boardman. Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period. London 1975

D. 15.5 cm (6.1 in)
W. over handles 23 cm (9 in)

Reconstituted from large fragments. Black glaze on the outside slightly worn in places.

German private collection

2800 USD