Decoration: Body: DOMESTIC, WOMEN, ONE SEATED ON PLATFORM PLAYING LYRE, ONE WITH SCROLL, ONE WITH LYRE AND BOX, LYRE SUSPENDED, BUILDING (DOOR) (MUSES ?)
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Solow Art and Architecture Foundation
Previous Collections:
Basel, private
London, private, Embiricos
London, market, Christie's
Publication Record: Archontidou, A. et al., Geschenk van de Muzen, Muziek en dans in het oude Griekenland. Μοuson Dora. Μοusikoi kai choreutikoi apoikoi apo tin archaia Εllada (Athens, 2003): 45, FIG.6 (BD) Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery: 52/53 (1994/95) 115, FIGS.3-4 Bundrick, S.D., Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2005): 93, FIG.57 (BD) Christie, Manson and Woods, sale catalogue: 28.4.1993, 54-55, NO.23 (COLOUR, INCLUDING PART) Glazebrook, A. and Tsakirgis, B. (eds.) Houses of Ill Repute, The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World (Philadelphia, 2016): 149, FIG.7.4 (DRAWING OF BD) Imago Musicae, International Yearbook of Musical Iconography: 8 (1991) 77, FIG.5 (BD) Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien: 13/14 (2011/2012) 223, FIG.3 (COLOUR OF BD) Kaltsas N. (ed.), Agon, Exhibition catalogue (Athens, 2004): 50, FIG.5 (PART OF BD) Lissarrague, F. et al., La Cite des Images, Religion et Societe en Grece Antique (Lausanne, 1984): 86, FIG.124 Mouseion: 49 (2005) 13, PL.6 (DRAWING OF BD) Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 291, FIG.9 (BD) Prange, M., Der Niobidenmaler und seine Werkstatt, Untersuchungen zu einer Vasenwerkstatt frühklassischer Zeit (Frankfurt, 1989): PL.8.101 Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 209-210, NO.45 (COLUR OF PARTS) Schmidt, S., Rhetorische Bilder auf attischen Vasen, Visuelle Kommunikation im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Berlin, 2005): 259, FIG.128 (BD) Specht, E., Schön zu sein und gut zu sein, Mädchenbildung und Frauensozialisation im antiken Griechenland, Frauenforschung 9 (Vienna, 1989): 123, FIG.17 Theisen, U., Parthenos, Nymphe, Gyne, Weibliche Trachtikonographie als Bedeutungsträger im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. in Griechenland (Göttingen, 2009): 137, FIG.9 (COLOUR OF BD) Yatromanolakis, D., Sappho in the Making, The Early Reception (Cambridge and London, 2007): 145, FIG.20 (BD)
CAVI Lemma: RF HYDRIA. NIOBID PAINTER. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH. 460-450.
CAVI Subject: CONCERT OF WOMEN: AT LEFT, A COLUMN AND AN OPEN DOOR; TO ITS LEFT A
KNUCKLE-BONE BAG; A WOMAN TO RIGHT SHOWING AN OPEN BOOK ROLL (SHOWN IN
PERSPECTIVE) TO...; THE WOMAN SEATED FRONTALLY ON A TWO-STEPPED PLATFORM, WHO IS
PLAYING THE LYRE WHILE READING IN THE ROLL; BESIDE HER, AN OPEN CHEST, FROM
WHICH NO DOUBT THE ROLL HAD BEEN TAKEN; ABOVE HER, A LYRE HUNG UP; AT RIGHT A
WOMAN TO LEFT HOLDING A LYRE AND CHEST.
CAVI Inscriptions: THE BOOK ROLL, SEEN FROM BELOW, IS NOT INSCRIBED.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} KAUFMAN-SAMARA LISTS AS NEW YORK, FOUNDATION OF THE SOLOW ART AND
ARCHITECTURE. [THIS CAN HARDLY BE QUITE RIGHT.]
CAVI Comments: EX LAUSANNE, PRIVATE (BéRARD). THE VASE IS NOT INSCRIBED. THE SCENE HAS BEEN
INTERPRETED AS A CONCERT OF MUSES (PRANGE) OR AS A CONCERT IN THE HOUSE OF A
RICH ATHENIAN WOMAN (BéRARD). K.-S. THINKS A POETESS IS GIVING A PUBLIC
PERFORMANCE (BECAUSE OF THE BEMA), WITH DOMESTIC FEATURES ADDED.
CAVI Number: 5763A
AVI Bibliography: BéRARD ET AL. (1989), 91, FIG. 125. — PRANGE (1989), 201/N 101, PL. 8. —
ATTSCR (1990), 99 N. 6 (BRIEF MENTION [[AS "BASEL, PRIVATE"]]). — CHRISTIES
(1993), 54/23 (H. CAHN). — KAUFMAN-SAMARA (1997), 290 AND 292, FIG. 9.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
