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Attic Red-Figured Dinos
Attic Red-Figured Dinos
Attic Red-Figured Dinos
Attic Red-Figured Dinos
Attic Red-Figured Dinos

Attic Red-Figured Dinos

SKU: MS.0099

Origin: Mediterranean
Circa: 4th Century BC
Dimensions: 10.25" Height (26 cm) with lid
Medium: Terracotta

From the LC Group. Standing on a high baluster foot with black tongues on the shoulder and a peaked lid with narrow baluster knob, the body of the vessel is decorated with a large head of a maenad, clutching a thyrsos on one side. Further along the bowl there is a draped female moving to the right while looking back, holding a cista and fillets in each extended hand. To the left of her there is a nude winged Eros flying to the right holding a cista and fillets. The final side shows a different type of scene consisting of a shield, a double-door, and a tympanum. This elegant and rare vessel would have been used to mix wine and water for the symposium. 

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A label on the underside of the foot, reading: "acheté à Rhodes, 1905." Jean Audy (1906-1962), Paris. Archéologie, Millon & Associés, Paris, 21 May 2008, lot 287

The L.C. Group is named for painters of late Attic calyx-kraters. Designed for use at a symposium, or drinking party, this dinos has a wide mouth allowing easy access to its contents—wine mixed with water (and sometimes other ingredients for flavoring). While drinking, symposiasts would often recite poetry and celebrate the mythological exploits of gods and heroes, perhaps prompted by the images painted on their pottery.

For a closely-related example, in terms of the shape and subject, compare the dinos in Leiden, pp. 34-35, pls. 192.1-4 and 195.1 in M.F. Vos, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, the Netherlands, Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Fasc. 4.

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