Description:

Greece, Athens (Attic), early Classical Period, FP Class, ca. 500 BCE. A terracotta wine cup known as the skyphos, decorated in the black-figure technique and of the FP (Flower-Palmette) Class. On either side of the vessel is a courting scene with a bearded satyr - with genitalia etched into the clay surfaces - and a young nude female. Each set of figures is flanked by large palmettes, and fine lotus buds are illustrated under the handles. Size: 8.125" W (to handles) x 4" H (20.6 cm x 10.2 cm)

For the FP class (Flower-Palmette-Class) see: J. Beazley, Paralipomena 81; J. Boardman, Black-figure Vases from Athens., 1977) no. 117. Cf. the Skyphoi Taranto 20291 and 20298 (A. D'Amicis, Catalogo del Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Taranto I.3 (1994) see 233; 239, no. 44.31-32).

This piece has been searched against the Art Loss Register database and has been cleared. The Art Loss Register maintains the world’s largest database of stolen art, collectibles, and antiques.

Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Vol. XXVI (2015), no. 101.

Provenance: ex-private Belgian collection, acquired in the 1980s; ex Gorny & Mosch, Munich, Germany, December 2013

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