Auction Times:
14th December 2020 - 2 pm GMT (3 pm
CST)
拍卖品 24:
ATTIC RED-FIGURE LEKYTHOS WITH ATHENA AND ATHANASIA
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ATTIC RED-FIGURE LEKYTHOS WITH ATHENA AND ATHANASIA
Attribuited to the Nikon Painter, 470 - 450 BC
height cm 28; diam. cm 6
Enclosed between two flags of menanders, the Goddess Athena is depicted standing and armeda, while she turns her eyes to a draped figure. She is Athanasia, the personification of immortality. Words of praise are realized among the figures. Restored. Provenance: Private collection, London; acquired in Brussels from Alara Gallery on 1994; formerly in an old German collection (Düsseldorf).

