GREECE, ATTIC BLACK FIGURE MASTOID CUP

GREECE, ATTIC BLACK FIGURE MASTOID CUP

Cup with small offset lip decorated with ivy-wreath in black, upperpart of body with row of six black wild boars to the left, ‘trees’ inbetween; three of the boars are standing and three are bent at their left foreleg. Lower part of body painted red; inside of cup in red, apart from the black rim.

Ex priv. coll. W.J.de K., Neth. acq. from Puhze, Freiburg 1990
H. 9,9 cm, diam. 11 cm. Repaired and partly restored. APM B11942

Attic, Haimon Group, c. 490 BC

Note:’… the painter was possibly depicting the Erymanthian boar six times, without Herakles’… hiding behind a tree, as the myth goes.The mastoid cup derives its name from the Greek word ‘mastos’ a woman’s breast.
Publ. Mededelingenblad Allard Pierson Museum 50, 199, pp. 7-9, 1-2