Decoration: A,B: WEDDING OF PELEUS AND THETIS, KLINE IN BUILDING, DIONYSOS WITH THYRSOS, MAN WITH TORCHES, YOUTH PLAYING LYRE, BOTH DRAPED, WOMEN, ONE WITH TORCHES Shoulder: CENTAUROMACHY, KAINEUS, WARRIORS (ONE NAMED, PERITHOOS), SHIELD DEVICES, OCTOPUS, HINDQUARTERS OF LION, AND CENTAURS, ONE IN ANIMAL SKIN, ONE WITH ROCK, ONE FALLEN, ONE WITH TREE, APRON WITH EYE
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: SL1990.1.21
Previous Collections:
Germany, private
New York (N.Y.), private, Shelby White & Leon Levy Collection
Publication Record: Bothmer, D. von (ed.) Glories of the Past, Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection (New York, 1991): 168-170, NO.121 (INCLUDING COLOUR) Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 109, FIG.8-9 Eschbach, N. and Schmidt, S. (eds.), Töpfer, Maler, Werkstatt. Zuschreibungen in der griechischen Vasenmalerei und die Organisation antiker Keramikproduktion (Munich, 2016): 42, FIG.6 (A AND PART OF SH) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.172, PEIRITHOOS 4 (PART OF S), 205, PELEUS 210 (BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.205, PELEUS 210 (A,B, SIDES) Oakley, J.H., and Sinos, R.H., The wedding in ancient Athens (Madison, 1993): 112-114, FIGS.108-111 (A, B, SIDES) Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 348, NO.109 Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 144, FIG.56 (A) Shapiro H.A., Myth into Art, Poet and Painter in Classical Athens (London, 1994): 103, FIGS.68-69 (A, SIDE) Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 143, FIG.117 (COLOUR OF B)
CAVI Collection: New York, Leon Levy and Shelby White.
CAVI Lemma: RF pointed neck amphora with stand. Copenhagen Painter (Guy). Second quarter
fifth. Ca. 470 (Bothmer).
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: Centauromachy. Body: Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: continuous:
starting to right of the bridal chamber: Hopla (a woman) to right; Semele and
Dionysus facing; Leto, Apollo and Artemis; Thetis led by Peleus to right (χειρ
επι καρπῳ); Chiron standing to left at the entrance; the bridal chamber with
kline, and alabastron and scarf hung up; in front of the kline, Philyra with
torches (mother of Chiron).
CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: Theseus. Perithoos. Kaineus. Lapithas{1}. The centaurs are not
inscribed. Body: Hopla{2}. Chiron. Peleus. Thetis. Artemis. Apollo. Leto.
Semele. Dionysos. Philyra{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} perhaps a variant of Λαπιθης, the eponymous ancestor of the Lapiths. {2}
female; not attested. May be connected with Hoplon, a Lapith on the Francois
Vase (Bothmner). See also O. and S. 36 and n. 105, who refer to Hoplon on the
François Vase; Hopleus in Hesiod, Aspis 180; and an archon of the 3rd cent. B.C.
(Hesp. 40 (1971) 109-11). They think perhaps a reference to the arms of
Achilles. Cf. also LGPN ii, s.v. Οπλων (two entries). {3} the mother of Chiron
who helped to bring up Achilles; only found here (Bothmer).
CAVI Comments: Bothmer on p. 171 refers to another Centauromachy by the Copenhagen Painter,
on a pointed neck amphora, Germany, Private, published by Cahn in the Copenhagen
Symposium (1987) 107-57; Theseus and Perithoos are named.
CAVI Number: 5757
AVI Bibliography: Bothmer (1990), 168/121 (ill.; no bibl.). — Oakley–Sinos (1993), 36-37, figs.
108-111.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
