A seated youth holding a staff

Red-figured kylix. Attic.
Attributed to Brygos Painter.
Ca. 470 BCE.
Diam. 19.2 cm. Sotheby’s Auction House, New York

A seated youth holding a staff.

Red-figured kylix. Attic.
Attributed to Brygos Painter.
Ca. 470 BCE.
Diam. 19.2 cm.

Sotheby’s Auction House, New York.

Private collection.

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 12. Price realized: 50,000 USD.

Description:

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.

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).

Credits:

THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

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