Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 56
An Attic black-figure kylix
6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,825 inc. premium
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An Attic black-figure kylix
Close to the Leafless Group, circa 550-500 B.C.
The tondo depicting a running male youth wearing a pointed cap, with draped outstretched left arm, his right clutching a sword at his waist, each side of the exterior with a battle scene, with two helmeted warriors holding circular shields, interspersed with two warriors mounted on horseback, dolphins underneath the handles, details incised and in added red and white, 21cm excl. handles
Close to the Leafless Group, circa 550-500 B.C.
The tondo depicting a running male youth wearing a pointed cap, with draped outstretched left arm, his right clutching a sword at his waist, each side of the exterior with a battle scene, with two helmeted warriors holding circular shields, interspersed with two warriors mounted on horseback, dolphins underneath the handles, details incised and in added red and white, 21cm excl. handles
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private collection, London, formed 1980-late 1990s.
The Leafless Group were a group of Late Athenian black-figure vase painters who were so named for the stripped branches that appeared on many of their painted cups. Other signature features of the Leafless Group were dolphins, birds or leaves under the handles as well as single figures and Gorgons in the tondo (J. Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, London, 1974, pp.150-151).