This small Pelike features a single figure with animal on a dotted
ground line on each side. On the obverse a winged youth (Eros) swoops down
to Earth to catch a hare. On the reverse a draped man is standing in
profile to left with a staff in his right hand; at lower right a dog (Spitz
or Maltese) stares up at his master. The homoerotic nature of these scenes
is suggested by the hare which was a common love gift of older men to young
boys. This Eros with animal recalls the famous lekythos in Boston by the Brygos
painter on which a flying Eros carries a deer and the reverse of the
Siren
painter's name-vase on which one of the Three Flying Erotes carries a hare.
The Tyskiewicz Painter was a major Athenian vase-painter whose style
bridged the archaic and early classical periods. 10 1/2" h.
Ex-collection: Munzen and Medaillen A.G. Basel. Published J.D. Beazley,
Attic Red Figure Vase Painters, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1963) 1643, no. 58bis;
Andre Emmerich Gallery, Masterpieces of Greek Vase Painting (New York
1964), no. 27. Paralipomena (Oxford 1971) 356.
Provenance: From a Private Collection, Cleveland, Ohio.
Condition: excellently restored from numerous fragments,small pieces missing (e.g. Eros' chin, man's right arm, dog's chest) Incised trademark on underside of foot: F.
