GREECE, ATTIC BLACK FIGURE LIP CUP

GREECE, ATTIC BLACK FIGURE LIP CUP

Thin-walled kylix, high black stem, splaying foot, underside reserved; off-set lip decorated with a figure of a panther leaping up to right, tail curled up; inside with reserved tondo small concentric black band, dotted circle within.

Ex priv. coll. W.J. de K., Neth. acq. from M.S. Rocchi, Rome 1986.
H. 10,2 cm; diam.13,8 cm; incl handles 19,3 cm. Repaired and restored

Xenokles Painter/Potter, c. 545 BC (acc. Mrs. Haldenstein)

Note: small spike inside the foot, unusual for lip cups
Publ. CVA Amsterdam 2 (1996) 58-59, Fig. 28 (profiel tekening), Pl. 97.1-4, 98.1;
Cf. J. Boardman, Athenian Black Figure Vases, London 1974, p. 60; fig. 112; on loan APM B11390