Attributed To: DOURIS by SIGNATURE PYTHON by BLOESCH
Decoration: A: MEN, YOUTHS, CAT B: LEOPARD AND STOOL, DOG, MEN, YOUTHS I: YOUTH, SEATED, WITH HARE AND STAFF, CAGE, BASKET
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), private
Previous Collections:
Küsnacht, private, Hirschmann Collection: G64
London, market, Sotheby's
Publication Record: Barringer, J.M., The Hunt in ancient Greece (Baltimore and London, 2001): 77, FIG.37 (I) Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PL.59, NO.89 (I, A, B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 396 Greek Vases from the Hirschmann Collection (Zurich, 1982): 69, NO.33 (I, A, COLOUR) Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Phyta kai Zoia. Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Österreich, Band 2 (Vienna, 2015): 236, FIG.5A-B (I AND COLOUR OF B) Lissarrague, F. et al., La Cite des Images, Religion et Societe en Grece Antique (Lausanne, 1984): 81, FIG.118 (I) Oakley, J.H. (ed.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014): 34, FIG.8, PL.3A (PART OF I, COLOUR OF PART OF I) Sotheby's, Greek Vases from the Hirschmann Collection, 9.12.1993: 111, NO.49 (COLOUR)
CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. DOURIS. PYTHON, POTTER (BLöSCH). FIRST QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 490
(LEZZI-HAFTER). MIDDLE (BUITRON-OLIVER). MIDDLE I (LEZZI-HAFTER).
CAVI Subject: INT.: YOUTH SEATED TO RIGHT WITH HARE IN LAP; ON THE WALL, ABASKET; A HARE
CAGE (EMPTY) WITH THE DOOR OPEN{1}. A: NOT ILL. IN L.-H.: TWO MEN AND THEIR
LOVERS LEAN OVER A SMALL CAT OF WHICH ONLY THE SPOTTED TAIL REMAINS. B: A
BEARDED MAN LEANING ON HIS STICK TO RIGHT; A DOG BARKING AT A LEOPARD SITTING IN
THE CENTER ON TOP OF A CLOTH-COVERED FOLDING CHAIR [SO L.-H.]; BEHIND THE
LEOPARD A YOUTH; AT RIGHT TWO FURTHER FIGURES. [L.-H. THINKS THE LEOPARD IS A
GIFT FROM THE MAN TO THE BOY BEHIND THE ANIMAL.]
CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: ALONG THE MARGIN, STARTING AT MID-HEIGHT [WHICH SEEMS TO BE TYPICAL],
ENDING ABOVE THE BASKET: Δορις εγραφσεν. A: [Hιπποδ]αμ[ας]{2}. B: καλος.
ETRUSCAN GR.: 8EDCVAS, RETR. (3-STROKE SIGMA).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE CAGE IS SAID BY L.-H. TO BE A CAGE FOR THE HARE THE YOUTH IS PLAYING
WITH; A NOTE ON P. 103 SAYS ROUND CAGES WERE FOR HARES AND RECTANGULAR ONES FOR
BIRDS. {2} BEA. ARCH. HAS: HIPODAMAS.
CAVI Comments: LISTED AS KüSNACHT, HIRSCHMANN COLLECTION, NO. 33, IN B.-O., BUT G 64 IS
RIGHT. - HIPPODAMAS MAY BE THE GENERAL WHO FELL IN 459/8. DOTTED DELTA. TAILED
RHO.
CAVI Number: 4109
AVI Bibliography: BADB 7242. — BUITRON (1976), 83, 85, 99-101, 118/85 [SIC]. — LEZZI-HAFTER
(1982), 68/33 (COLORED PH. OF INT., SHOWS SIGNATURE), 103. — BéRARD ET AL.
(1984), 81, FIG. 118 (INT.). — ADD.[2] (1989), 396, 403. — BUITRON-OLIVER
(1995), 78/89 (FACS. OF GR.), PL. 59.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
