1. An Attic Red Figure Pelike Attributed to the Tyszkiewicz Painter (Beazley) circa 470 B.C.

This small Pelike features a single figure with animal on a dotted ground line on each side. On the obverse a winged youth (Eros) swoops down to Earth to catch a hare. On the reverse a draped man is standing in profile to left with a staff in his right hand; at lower right a dog (Spitz or Maltese) stares up at his master. The homoerotic nature of these scenes is suggested by the hare which was a common love gift of older men to young boys. This Eros with animal recalls the famous lekythos in Boston by the Brygos painter on which a flying Eros carries a deer on the reverse of the Siren painter's name-vase on which one of the Three Flying Erotes carries a hare. The Tyskiewicz Painter was a major Athenian vase-painter whose style bridged the archaic and early classical periods. 10 1/2" h.

Ex-collection: Munzen and Medaillen A.G. Basel. Published J.D. Beazley, Attic Red Figure Vase Painters, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1963) 1643, no. 58bis; Andre Emmerich Gallery, Masterpieces of Greek Vase Painting (New York 1964), no. 27. Paralipomena (Oxford 1971) 356.

Provenance: From a Fine Private Collection, Cleveland, Ohio.

We are grateful to Dr. Jenifer Neils for her expertise and assistance in the research and cataloging of this lot.

15,000/25,000     SOLD: $10,350.00

Condition: excllently restored from numerous fragments,small pieces missing (e.g. Eros' chin, man's right arm, dog's chest) Incised trademark on underside of foot: F.