Lot 5461

Description

Greek, Attic, a fragment of painted red figure pottery 72mm, showing a athlete cleaning himself with a strigilis, produced in the late 5th century. Mounted on frame 180 x 180mm. Fine.

Ex Mark Marshan Collection. Lot includes a description and athentication certificate by Dr. John-Paul Descoeudres (Archaelogist, formerly Sydney University), his description stated above and a Statutory Declaration on piece. Fragment of Attic red-figure stemless cup length 7.2 cms of thickness 0.5 - 0.6 cm. Clay wall levigated, slightly micaceous on good black glaze. A fragment of the centre of a stemless cup, put together from three sherds, slightly chipped, added white (band of the hair of the athlete slightly faded). Inside is an athlete in profile to right, holding a strigilis in his right hand and bending forward to clean himself in front of some stele. Outside concentric bands and lines around a small central dot. Made late in the 5th century B.C. in the period of the Codrus painter (see Codrus painter - J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1963 pp.1268.