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390318, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, Unknown, private, Thomas Burgon, 1842,0728.856

  • Vase Number: 390318
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
  • Shape Name: PYXIS
  • Date: -525 to -475
  • Attributed To: SAPPHO P by HASPELS
  • Decoration: Body: CHARIOT RACE, CHARIOTS
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B677
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 228.55
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4558
  • AVI Record Number: 4386
  • British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1842-0728-856
  • CAVI Collection: London B 677.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF/WG pyxis with lid. From Athens. Sappho Painter (Haspels){1}. Early fifth. [Ca. 500].
  • CAVI Subject: Chariot race: four chariots to right.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Imitation inscriptions.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} Not mentioned in Beazley.
  • CAVI Comments: Ex Burgon collection. Haspels cites from notes by Burgon preserved in the Ashmolean; she also says there are drs. by him there. Burgon praises the quality of the design and adds: "and tho' the inscriptions under each horse are slight, this is less the result of haste, than of intended indications." A small vase.
  • CAVI Number: 4386
  • AVI Bibliography: H.B. Walters in BM Cat. B (1893), 298. — Haspels (1936), 115, 228/55 (not ill.; no bibl.).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

Last updated 26/07/2024 18:59:00 by Parker, Greg. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/3AF1C070-FDDA-4792-A639-F41041289085

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