Greece, Athens, ca. 450 BCE. A finely potted and skillfully painted pottery vessel known as a kantharos, boasting a bulbous base, straight walls, and a flared rim, all sitting upon a tiered foot and flanked by twin loop handles. Painted in a style known as Saint-Valentin, the upper walls feature a rectangular panel decorated with vertical palm frond motifs, while the lower sections are painted in Gnathian style with flowering leafy tendrils delineated in liberal remains of added white pigment and a vertically striated pattern. Size: 6" in diameter x 4.25" H (15.2 cm x 10.8 cm)

Saint-Valentin vases first appeared in the second quarter of the 5th Century BCE in Athens and continued to be made there throughout the century. The genre mainly consists of sessile kantharoi and skyphoi painted with textile-like patterns of checkerboard, feathers, scales, and floral motifs. The style was later adopted by South Italic vase painters, including the artist who decorated this example.

Provenance: private Corpus Christi, Texas, USA estate collection, acquired 1960s to 1970s

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#165351

Repair and restoration to handles, rim, and base. Fading to white pigment. Otherwise, excellent.