Attributed To:Compare SHUVALOV P by LEZZI-HAFTER Manner of MEIDIAS P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: WOMEN, ONE SEATED WITH WREATH, ONE WITH SCEPTRE (APHRODITE), ONE NAKED, SQUATTING (HELEN ?), EROS WITH HYDRIA, POTHOS WITH MIRROR AND BOX (NAMED) TREE
Last Recorded Collection: Jaen, Museo Iberico: DA07085
Previous Collections:
London, private, Embiricos
London, market, Christie's
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1690.66TER, 1705 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 364 Christie, Manson and Woods, sale catalogue: 28.4.1993, 67, 69-70, NO.30 (COLOUR) Fernandez, C.S. and Garcia, J.T. (eds.), La cerámica ática fuera del Ática, contextos, usos y miradas, Studia Archaeologica 256 (Rome, 2023): 210, FIG.3 (PART OF BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.23, EUKLEIA 3 (PART), PL.305, HELENE 77 Lezzi-Hafter, A., Der Eretria-Maler, Werke und Weggefährten (Mainz, 1988): PL.148A-B, D Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): COLOUR PLATE 21C (COLOUR OF PART) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE Pellegrini, E., Eros nella Grecia arcaica e classica, iconografia e iconologia (Rome, 2009): PL.20 (BD) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 77, 124, FIGS.30-31, 78 Smith, A.C., Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (Leiden, 2011): FIG.5.4 (BD)
CAVI Lemma: RF squat lekythos{1}. Manner of Meidias Painter{2}. End of fifth (Shapiro).
Ca. 410 (Lezzi-Hafter).
CAVI Subject: The Bath of Helen,(3) with Eunomia(?), Eukleia, Eros (pouring water), Pothos
and Aphrodite.
CAVI Inscriptions: Αφροδιτ[η]. Ερ[ω]ς. [Π]οθος. Eukleia. Eunomia? See also the readings by R.
Guy in LIMC iv: Helen. Eukleia (wreath-maker); Aphrodite (scepter-holding); Eros
(holding cloth); Pothos (holding chest). See also the readings by R. Guy in LIMC
iv. Helen; Eukleia (wreath-maker); Aphrodite (scepter-holding); Eros (holding
cloth); Pothos (holding chest).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} tallboy. {2} so Shapiro and Burn. Lezzi-Hafter attributes the vase to a
follower of the Shuvalov Painter. {3} Beazley says: "Naked woman bathing,
combing her hair; she is waited on by two Erotes; Aphrodite gives the order, and
two seated goddesses look on."
CAVI Comments: Burn does not seem to comment on Helen on this vase. L.-H. in n. 332 thinks
it possible that the lekythos was made by the potter of the Frankfurt acorn
lekythos, and she appears to accept the Phintias inscription on that vase. Cf.
also p. 96. In the cat. she says: `Vom Töpfer Phintias?' Beazley in ARV[2] 1705
says: "there is also something of the Shuvalov Painter". Other acorn lekythoi
perhaps by the same potter: Berlin 2707; Louvre MNB 1320 [L.-H., nos. O 21 and O
22.]
CAVI Number: 4764
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 1690/66 ter. — Lezzi-Hafter (1976), *91 and nn. 331-33, 96,
111/S 101, pls. 140 and 148. — Burn (1987), 114/MM 106 (not ill.). — LIMC iv
(1988), 49-50, Eukleia 3; 516, Helene 77. — Add.[2] (1989), 364. — Shapiro
(1993), 237/29, 7, figs. 30-31, 124, fig. 78. — Sabetai (1997), 320-21 and n. 11
(bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
