On a stand line, a youth with a horse facing left. With his cloak draped over his right shoulder and wrapped around his left arm, he grasps the reins with his right hand while tightening them with his left hand drawn back. The horse throws its head upward; the white of its eye is visible in the front corner, lending an inner dynamism to an otherwise calm composition. Inscription “…LAOS” above the horse’s head. KALOS inscription behind the youth’s head and back. Palmette frieze on the neck. Palmette on the centrally placed, slightly profiled handle. Incised graffito on the underside: “AX”. Attributed to the Tarquinia Painter (Beazley)
PROVENANCE
With Hesperia Art, Philadelphia, prior 1959; probably acquired by Ernest G. Allen, Tarrytown, New York. Thereafter New York State private collection; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1998, lot 134. With Charles Ede, London, 2000. With Jean-David Cahn AG, Basel; acquired at Christie's, New York, 16.06.2006, lot 117. Thereafter, Swiss private collection. Publ.: Archaeology journal, Vol. 12, No. 2, (June 1959), p. 145; Hesperia Art, Philadelphie, Bulletin VII, c. 1961-1962, no. 216; Beazley, ARV² (1963, 1984), 871, 91; Charles Ede, New York Show Catalogue, 2000, no. 38.
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