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)
