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A Campanian (Greek) skyphos (two-handled deep wine cup)
Mid 4th century BC
Campania
Made in a Greek colony in southern Italy.
Made in a Greek colony in southern Italy.
Pottery, black on red
Height: 12.5cm
Diameter: 12cm
Diameter: 12cm
Museum number: HR6
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 542
On display: Picture Room Recess (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
Black on red
Side A
Youth, seated right on a block, himation about the knees; he holds a box and a wreath.
Side B
Youth in long, bordered himation (w. thick black stripe) standing left, staff held vertically in his out-stretched right hand.
Ovolo and fillet border at lip; palmettes and large sprays beneath handles; and reserved groundline fillet below.
For the general group to which this vase belongs, see Sir J.D. Beazley, 'Some Skyphoí', JHS, LXIII, 1943, pp.84f. Also compare Capua CVA pls. 42f., no.5 (group, according to Prof. Trendall, 'of the cut-off heads'). The palmettes determine the attribution, compare BM old no.1270; they are not very far off the outer circle of the Parrish Painter.
Side A
Youth, seated right on a block, himation about the knees; he holds a box and a wreath.
Side B
Youth in long, bordered himation (w. thick black stripe) standing left, staff held vertically in his out-stretched right hand.
Ovolo and fillet border at lip; palmettes and large sprays beneath handles; and reserved groundline fillet below.
For the general group to which this vase belongs, see Sir J.D. Beazley, 'Some Skyphoí', JHS, LXIII, 1943, pp.84f. Also compare Capua CVA pls. 42f., no.5 (group, according to Prof. Trendall, 'of the cut-off heads'). The palmettes determine the attribution, compare BM old no.1270; they are not very far off the outer circle of the Parrish Painter.
Literature
A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Vol. I, p.284, no. 415 (The Cassandra - Parrish Workshop).
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