275533, ATHENIAN, Jaen, Museo Iberico, London, market, Christie's, London, private, Embiricos, DA07085

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Vase Number: 275533
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Shape Name: LEKYTHOS, SQUAT
Date: -450 to -400
Inscriptions: Named: APHRODITE, EROS, POTHOS, EUKLEIA
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
Current 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)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4940
AVI Record Number: 4764
LIMC ID: 12447
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7453f2f1969e8-f
CAVI Collection: London, Nicholas Embiricos.
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)

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