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PAESTAN RED-FIGURE LEKANIS The lid decorated with a swimming ketos with pointed muzzle and ears, sinuous spotted body, and two fish in the field. Cf. K. Shepard, The Fish-Tailed Monster in Greek and Etruscan Art, New York, 1940, for a discussion of imaginary marine beasts, where she writes "The most sinister of marine monsters after Skylla is the ketos, dog-headed to symbolize the barking of the waves, and evidently given to preying upon ships, if we are to trust the Minoan prototype. By the fifth century he is tamed and riden by Nereids." Ex K. Suvanna collection, Sussex, England, acquired in the 1970s; Gil and Myrna Goldfine collection. Ca. 350 BC Diam. 6 in. (15.2 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2012, no. 121 CLM104 $9,500 Sales |
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