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A kylix was the most common type of wine-drinking cup in Ancient Greece. The tondo with a youth at a laver, standing in profile to the left, torso turned three-quarter frontal. With a voluminous himation draped over his right shoulder exposed. His arm extending forward with his hand above the laver.

ø 23.1 cm

c. 460 BC

Pottery

Provenance

Said to be found in Etruria, possibly Tarquinia
British government official, stationed in Italy, circa 1870
Thence by descent, private collection, England, circa 1923
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 14th November 1966, lot 20
With Charles Ede, London, circa 1990
The property of Thomas C. Simiele, Ohio
Acquired at Christie's, Antiquities - Sale 2490, New York, 7th December 2011, lot 109

Publications

Beazley Archive Database, , no. 276018
J. D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 427, no. 77bis
T. H. Carpenter, Beazley Addenda, Oxford, 1989, p. 300, no. 870.77bis
J.- L. Durand and F. Lissarrague, "Un Lieu d'Image?, L'espace du louterion", Hephaistos 2, 1990, p. 98, fig. 14

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from 2012

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Attic Red-Figured Kylix Attributed to the Tarquinia Painter

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