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78 - BLACK-FIGURE SIANA CUP
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BLACK-FIGURE SIANA CUP Greek art, Attic, second half of the 6th century B.C. A black-glazed terracotta cup with handles, decorated on its central panel with a figure of a rooster and a lotus flower framed by palmettes. On the exterior, an animal frieze depicts, on side A, a bird with outstretched wings surrounded by two panthers and two does; on side B, a pair of panthers and does. Restored. Height: 12.4 cm Diameter: 23.6 cm Provenance: Herbert A. Cahn Collection, Basel Felix Keller Collection, Zurich Cahn Auktionen AG, Basel, September 19, 2008: no. 275 (ill.) Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA58) Bibliography: Cahn Auktionen AG, Auction 3, Basel, September 19, 2008, lot 275 J. Boardman, “Greek Art” in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 61, fig. 12 An Attic black-figured Siana cup, Second half of the 6th century B.C.
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