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Fragments of an Attic red-figure bowl. ca. 520...

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Fragments of an Attic red-figure bowl. ca. 520 B.C. W of preserved fragments 25,3cm, ø restored 29,6cm, ø tondo 12,6cm. Inside large tondo with a frontal squatting ithyphallic satyr. With Italian export license, a certificate from The Art Loss Register and copies of the Sotheby`s and Puhze catalogs! Original are large parts of the interior painting and part of the basin; last modern addition by order of the previous owner to a complete bowl. Ex Gorny & Mosch Auction 275, Munich December 16, 2020, lot 26; previously in Germany since 2002; ex Sotheby`s London May 17, 1983, lot 302. Published in Sotheby`s London, Catalogue of Antiquities May 17, 1983, lot 302 with plate 28; Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg im Breisgau Katalog Kunst der Antike 26, 2012, no. 102; Beazley Archive Pottery Database 8647. Iconographically comparable are, for example, a squatting maenad on the bowl Berlin Antikensammlung 3757 (J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters 2nd edition [1963] p. 404 no. 11; Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum 3 pl. 125.3.7; Beazley Archive Pottery Database 204391) or the ithyphallic satyr on the Boston bowl, Museum of Fine Arts 10.179 (Beazley op. cit. p. 327 no. 110; Beazley Archive Pottery Database 203364).