A Corinthian Black-Figured Kylix

Circa 560 B.C.

Height 3 1/2 inches.

Provenance:

Royal Athena Galleries, New York (Art of the Ancient World, vol. X, no. 84), 1999.

Private New York Collection, early 2000s to 2010.

Exhibited:

Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Art, 1985-1995.

The body intact. A triangle of repair along the rim. No other repair or restoration visible. A chip to the outer rim. Some glaze loss throughout. Some incrustation on the interior, especially around the lip. Overall in fine stable condition. A collection sticker on the underside reading 2448.12.

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Mr. Coley joined the Antiquities department in 2021 after working as Managing Director in the Ancient Art department at Colnaghi, the world’s oldest commercial art gallery, where he helped to establish the Ancient Art department and launched Colnaghi New York in 2017. Prior to Colnaghi, Mr. Coley was in the Greek and Roman Art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Coley holds a B.A. from the University of Miami and an M.A. in Art Market from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and he earned an art-appraisal certificate from New York University.

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A Corinthian Black-Figured Kylix

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