49 

A Boeotian red-figure skyphos, attributed to the Argos Painter, circa late 5th Century B.C., one side decorated with a nude standing male facing right, holding a thyrsus, the other with another nude male holding a thyrsus, looking backwards and holding an object in his out-stretched proper right hand, acanthus leaves beneath each handle, circa late 5th Century B.C., 9cm high and 17.8cm diam Provenance: From the private London property of a gentleman living on Eaton Sq. since the 1970s

london, United Kingdom