A cloaked man leaning on a stick
Red-figured kylix. Attic.Ca. 460 BCE.
Diam. 23.2 cm. Sotheby’s Auction House, New York
A cloaked man leaning on a stick.
Red-figured kylix. Attic.
Ca. 460 BCE.
Diam. 23.2 cm.
Ca. 460 BCE.
Diam. 23.2 cm.
Sotheby’s Auction House, New York.
Origin:
Acquired in Rome in the mid to late 1960s.
The collection of Sideo Fromboluti and Nora Speyer.
Sotheby’s, New York, June 8th, 2011, Lot 13. Price realized:17,500 USD.
The collection of Sideo Fromboluti and Nora Speyer.
Sotheby’s, New York, June 8th, 2011, Lot 13. Price realized:
Description:
An Attic Red-figured Cup, circa 460 B.C.
The tondo painted with a bearded and cloaked man leaning on a stick, a sponge, strigil, and aryballos suspended at left, the exterior decorated on one side with two youths exchanging gifts of flower and cloth, another youth in attendance, sponges, strigils and aryballoi in the field, and on the other side with a youth handing a lyre to another youth before a gesturing companion, a palmette flanked by two long voluted tendrils in each handle zone.
Estimate: 7,000—
Credits:
© 2011. Photo, text: Sotheby’s Auction House (Sale N08762 Lot 13).
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