201950, ATHENIAN, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Greenwich (CT), private, M. and W. Bareiss, Rome, market, 86.AE.170

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Vase Number: 201950
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: CUP
Date: -550 to -500
Inscriptions: NIKOSTHENES
Signature: NIKOSTHENESEPOIESEN
Attributed To: NIKOSTHENES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A: HEADS OF ATHENA AND HERAKLES, BETWEEN EYES
B: HEADS OF WOMEN (GODDESSES ?) AND MAN (ZEUS ?), BETWEEN EYES
Under handle: BOAR, COCK
Last Recorded Collection: Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: S.80.AE.300
Previous Collections:
- Rome, market
- Greenwich (CT), private, M. and W. Bareiss: 82
- Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 86.AE.170
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 231.10, 235
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 122, 1627
Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 109
Bentz, M., Geominy, W., and Müller, J.M. (eds.), TonArt, Virtuosität antiker Töpfertechnik. Eine Ausstellung im Akademischen Kunstmuseum-Antikensammlung der Universität Bonn 18.November 2010-17. April 2011 (Petersberg, 2010): 51, FIG.13 (A)
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 60
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MALIBU, J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM 2, 60-63, FIG.32, PLS.(1284,1285,1286,1287) 110.1-2, 111.1-2, 112.1-4, 113.2 View Whole CVA Plates
Greek Vases in the J.Paul Getty Museum: 2 (1985) 190, FIGS.8A-B (PARTS OF A AND B)
Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies: 35 (1994) 4, PL.3 (A, B)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.135, HERAKLES 3078 (PART OF A)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.647, PERSEPHONE 134 (PART OF B)
PLS.41, 145.166 (A)
PLS.41, 145.166 (A)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=5194
AVI Record Number: 5005
LIMC ID: 6511
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73ffd3fd0cdfc-2
CAVI Collection: Malibu 86.AE.170.
CAVI Lemma: RF eye cup. Unattributed{1}. Nikosthenes, potter. 530-520. Ca. 530 (Bothmer).
CAVI Subject: Ext,: between eyes: A: busts of Heracles and Athena. B: busts of a man and two women (one with polos){2}. Under one handle, a cock; under the other, a boar.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the left eyebrow: Nικοσθενες εποιεσεν{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Vacano (1973) attributes a number of BF eye cups potted by the early Nikosthenes to a Painter of Villa Giulia 63613; some of the attributions are questioned by Clark; see CVA, p. 63. {2} ABV does not identify the figures; Para. suggests Hebe and Hera, perhaps Zeus, although the beard is poor for Zeus. Bothmer in GV Bareiss suggests Hades with Persephone and Demeter. {3} M&M-Auction (1961), pl. 41/133, brackets the first epsilon.
CAVI Comments: Ex S.80.AE.300. Ex Bareiss 82. Ex Roman Market, Meggen, Käppeli, and Bareiss. Beazley (ABV 235) compares Vatican 456, a similar cup with heads on A. The hand is certainly different from Painter N's. Matheson identifies the heads on B as Demeter, Kore and Triptolemos. Schefold: Demeter, Persephone, Hades. Bruckner and Beazley following him: Hera, Hebe, Zeus. Brommer leaves the question open.
CAVI Number: 5005
AVI Bibliography: ABV (1956), 231/10, 235. — Schefold (1960), 161/144. — Para. (1971), 109. — J. Paul Getty Museum (1983), 27/14, fig. on p. 26 (A, part), 75/94. — Brommer (1985), 189-92. — Add.[2] (1989), 60. — A.J. Clark, CVA Malibu 2, USA 25 (1990), pls. 110-112, 1134,2, fig. 32 (profile) (much bibl.). — Matheson (1994), 366f. and n. 84, pl. 3 (details of A and B; part of signature shows).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

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