An Attic Black-figure Little-master Cassel Cup... Lot n° 19

Greek, Attic ca. 530-520 B.C.. Clay. H. 9.5 cm; Diam. 14.2 cm (without handles) In the reserved zone between the handles, repeated on each side, a pair of confronted sirens stand with wings widespread and their heads turned back. A red-hearted palmette is attached by a tendril to the roots of each handle. On the offset lip, a pattern of alternating black and red tongues. Below the figured zone, a band of laurel to left, framed by three lines above and below. A corona of fine rays above an all-black base. Inside, a circumscribed dot within a small reserved tondo. Although of the standard Cassel cup type, this example is one of the relatively few decorated with little-master figures on the bowl in place of chains of ivy or lotus. Condition: Reassembled from fragments. On one side part of the right siren and a small fragment of the lip missing. The lacunae are filled in, but the painting has not been reconstructed. Footplate and most of stem modern. Formerly Coll. Dr. K. Deppert, Frankfurt. Subsequently Coll. Päselt (inv. no. 29), since the 1970's. Starting price: 6800 CHF