Bidspirit auction | Faliscan red-figure drinking cup.

Faliscan red-figure drinking cup. - Faliscan red-figure drinking cup. 380 - 360 BC. H 9.6cm, W with handles 34.2cm, ø 25.9cm. Cup of the Attic type B, of the highest pottery quality, with very thin walls and delicate handles. The interior features a tondo with meander, within which a satyr and a maenad dance exuberantly in an X-shaped composition. On the exterior, both sides feature a repeating motif of a young woman between athlete and draped youth. Large palmettes in the handle areas. Delicate erotic motif! Professionally assembled from fragments, two small missing edge fragments filled with modern materials.