Discobolus
Red-figured kylix. Attic.Attributed to the Manner of the Epeleios Painter.
Ca. 500 BCE.
Diam. 33.3 cm. Sotheby’s Auction House, New York
Discobolus.
Red-figured kylix. Attic.
Attributed to the Manner of the Epeleios Painter.
Ca. 500 BCE.
Diam. 33.3 cm.
Attributed to the Manner of the Epeleios Painter.
Ca. 500 BCE.
Diam. 33.3 cm.
Sotheby’s Auction House, New York.
Origin:
Spink & Son, London.
Sotheby’s, London, November 26th, 1963, lot 102.
The collection of Sideo Fromboluti and Nora Speyer.
Sotheby’s, New York, June 8th, 2011, Lot 11. Price realized:43,750 USD.
Sotheby’s, London, November 26th, 1963, lot 102.
The collection of Sideo Fromboluti and Nora Speyer.
Sotheby’s, New York, June 8th, 2011, Lot 11. Price realized:
Description:
An Attic Red-figured Cup, attributed to the Manner of the Epeleios Painter, circa 500 B.C.
The tondo painted with a youth holding a discus, sponges and a pick in the field, the exterior decorated on one side with a trainer between a discobolos and two acontists, and on the other side with two acontists and a jumper holding halteres, palmettes flanking the handles.
For a closely related cup in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 41.162.133, see G. H. Chase and M. Z. Pease, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, United States of America, fasc. 8, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1942, pls. 47, 3, 49, 1 and 61, 6.
Literature:
John D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1963, p. 1629, no. 39 bis.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 275068.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 275068.
Credits:
© 2011. Photo, text: Sotheby’s Auction House (Sale N08762 Lot 11).
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