Decoration: A: SATYRS, ONE SEATED PLAYING PIPES, ONE DANCING WITH KANTHAROS, MAENADS WITH THYRSOI, POINTED AMPHORA B: DRAPED YOUTHS
Last Recorded Collection: Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery: X2142
Previous Collections:
Deepdene, private, Thomas Hope: T142
Port Sunlight, Lady Lever Art Gallery: 5038
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1189.9 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 454.15 Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 309, FIG.197 (DRAWING OF A) Robertson, M., Greek, Etruscan and Roman Vases in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight (Liverpool, 1987): PLS.36, 38A (A, B) Tillyard, E., The Hope Vases (Cambridge, 1923): PL.24 (A) Tischbein, W., Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases...now in the possession of Sir W. Hamilton (Naples, 1791-95): III, PL.18 (A)
CAVI Subject: A: Satyrs and Maenads: a maenad with thyrsus; a bearded satyr, seated, and
leaning against an amphora, playing the flutes; a maenad standing frontally,
head to right, with thyrsus, looking at a bearded satyr dancing.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Nonsense: Imitation letters: above each figure "as if naming them"
(Robertson): to right of the left maenad's thyrsus; above the seated satyr's
head; above the heads of the right maenad and the dancing satyr{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} done from text in Robertson, not visible in the ph.
CAVI Comments: Ex first Hamilton collection. Ex Hope collection (acqu. 1801). Acqu. by Lever
1917. Inscriptions in white. Typical for the Pothos Painter.
CAVI Number: 6835a
AVI Bibliography: Christies (1917), lot 116A. — ARV[2] (1963), 1189/9 (bibl.). — Robertson
(1987), 37/38, pls. 36 (A) and 38a (B). — Add.[2] (1989), 342 (bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
