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)
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