11¹⁄₄ in. (28.5 cm.) high

Private Collection, New York.
Property of a Gentleman; Antiquities, Christie’s, New York, 18 December 1997, lot 157.

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A youthful figure is depicted in profile to the left with his head bent forward, wearing a broad petasos above a kerchief with ringlets of red curls framing his face. His forked staff is similar to one seen on a plaque from the Fleischman Collection, now in the Getty Villa (no. 91 in M. True, et al., A Passion for Antiquities: Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman). Of the staff, S. Haynes (p. 196 in True, op. cit.) notes, “In Etruscan wall painting a forked staff is represented only rarely, but it occurs frequently in Greek vase painting, where it characterizes the bearers as officials charged with the physical education and supervision of athletes.”