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THBAttic Black Figure Mastoid Cup w/ Homoerotic Scene
Lot 26a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Day 1 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Viking, Russian, Near Eastern, as well as Asian Art from China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma and India. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Day 1 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Viking, Russian, Near Eastern, as well as Asian Art from China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma and India. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Ancient Greece, Athens (Attic), ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. An Attic terracotta mastoid cup decorated via the black-figure technique with sections of two large stylized eyes flanking a homoerotic scene - that is quite explicit - between a male couple. Scholars believe that Greek vase painters placed eyes on cups, because they were apotropaic - having the power to ward off evil. Another theory, is that that when held up to drink, the eye cup would transform into a mask with painted eyes, handles that resembled ears, and the foot resembling a mouth. Size: 3.125" in diameter x 3" H (7.9 cm x 7.6 cm)
The mastos form seems to deliberately be breast-shaped, based on archaeological findings suggesting ritual functions for these cups. Mastoid cups and ceramic votive representations of breasts have been found at sanctuaries to Diana (Artemis) and Hercules throughout the classical world - two figures in classical religion associated with birth, nursing, and rearing children. Fascinatingly, some of these even have dedications made by wet nurses. Some scholars theorize that the drinking of breast milk from a vessel like this one by an elderly or deathly ill adult symbolized rebirth in the afterlife.
Provenance: Formerly in the Christian von Faber-Castel collection of ancient erotic art, Kusnacht, Switzerland. Cahn Auction, Basel, Switzerland, 11.2013 lot 127 1 of 2 ALR.
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#149705Professionally repaired from ~4 large fragments with restoration using new clay to complete the vessel form. Very well executed.Condition
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