An Attic red-figure kylix, attributed to the Pithos Painter
circa 525 - 475 BC
Width including handles: 24 cm
Provenance: With Spink, London, before 1963
Private collection, London
Published: J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1963, p. 140, no. 41
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 201198.
The tondo depicts a youth in a Scythian cap, reclining on his left side, with his right leg bent with the knee pointing upwards, with a rhyton (drinking horn) in front of him, a basket(?) suspended.
Named for his depictions of pithoi, the Pithos Painter is known for his abstract style of painting. For a similar scene of a reclining Scythian at a symposium also by the Pithos Painter, see J. Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases, the Archaic Period, London, 1975, fig. 128.