Auction Date:2012 Nov 16 @ 10:00 (UTC-06:00 : CST/MDT)
Location:P.O. Box 714, Erie, Colorado, 80516, United States
This is a wonderful and important object, decorated by a well known painter. The piece is published and has a great provenance.
It is an Attic cup, deep and with an offset lip, resting on a short stem. Under the foot, which is glazed, a Greek graffito can be seen, consisting of the letters BY.
The scene on the cup, placed inside the tondo, is most interesting. Depicted is a satyr with a rather savage look in his eye, and with long, waving hair, a beard with the long hairs indicated by stripes, and a long tail. He is depicted in a kneeling position, seen in three-quarter view to the right. His face is rendered in strict profile, but his torso is shown full front as are the toes of his right foot. Suspended in front of him is a flute-case, which indicates that music is implied. This music probably also accounts for the position of his arms, which are flung out as if the satyr is dancing. The whole scene is surrounded by a border of ovolos, which is uncommon. Normally there is a single reserved line. The Heraion painter was so named after a work created by him that was found in the Heraion of Delos (Delos 658). He was a member of the circle of the Pythos painter, famed for his sketch-like relief lines and abstraction. He worked ca. 510-500 BC. For the painter see Beazley (1963), volume 1, p. 142-144 (Book II, Early Red-Figure Cup-Painters, Chapter 11 – The Coarser Wing II); volume 2, p. 1628. See also Beazley (1939), p. 2, who identified a fragment of an Attic cup, found in Al-Mina, comparing it with parallels in New York and Würzburg as well as the cup fragment Acropolis 131. All show the same motif of a satyr with a flute-case. See also Stewart and Martin (2005), p. 83.
For cups with this subject by the Heraion painter see Beazley (1963), I, p. 143, nos. 12, 13, 15, 17 (satyr kneeling); nos. 1, 5, 7 (youth kneeling with flute-case); nos. 14, 16 (satyr kneeling with flute-case). Our cup is no. 14 in the publication by Beazley, although the description he gives in not entirely correct: he says that the flute-case is in the left hand of the satyr rather than suspended in front of him. Another cup with offset lip and with a close parallel for subject, composition and style of drawing has been on the Swiss market, showing a kneeling satyr in almost mirror reverse, with a flute-case suspended from the border of the tondo.
This cup has been in the collection of Pierre Devambez, who was the chief curator of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, in the Louvre museum, Paris, which not only makes an excellent provenance but is also extra testimony of the authenticity of the piece.
Published: Beazley (1963), volume I, p. 143, nos. 14
Provenance: Dutch private collection; previously French private collection of Pierre Devambez (1937-1973); previously French art market, Mikas, Paris, prior to 1963.
Width 22.3 cm including handles, height 7.9 cm. Repaired from a few large fragments; some of the usual surface wear and scratches, common to all ancient pottery; small area at the centre of the tondo where the glazed surface is slightly corroded; very small part of the glaze on the inside with a slightly brownish colour instead of black, due to firing conditions. Overall in excellent condition and with a very interesting decoration.
Literature:
John D. Beazley, "Excavations at Al Mina, Sueidia. III. The Red-Figured Vases", The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 59 Part 1 (1939), p. 1-44;
John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (2nd edition; Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963), volume 1, p. 142-144; volume 2, p. 1628;
Andrew Stewart - S. Rebecca Martin, "Attic Imported Pottery at Tel Dor, Israel. An Overview", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 337 (2005), p. 79-94.
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