Attributed To: CHARITAIOS by SIGNATURE KARITHAIOS P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: AMAZONS WITH SPEARS AND PELTAI ON HORSEBACK Predella: ANIMAL FRIEZE, LIONS AND DEER Shoulder: WARRIORS, SOME ON HORSEBACK, DEVICE, DISCS
Last Recorded Collection: Reading (PA), Public Museum: 32.769.1
Previous Collections:
New York (N.Y.), private, Charles W. Gould
-, unknown
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 161 Clark, A.J. and Gaunt, J. (eds.), Essays in Honor of Dietrich von Bothmer, Allard Pierson Series 14 (Amsterdam, 2002): 238, FIG.1, PL.64 (INCL. DRAWINGS)
CAVI Collection: Reading, PA, Public Art Museum 32-769-1 (Ex New York, Gould).
CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. Unattributed{1}. Karithaios, potter (?). 530-520.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: two mounted warriors attacking a falling warrior. Body: Five
mounted and armed Amazons to right. Predella: two lions attacking a fawn.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under the foot, Gr.: Καριθαιος εποιεσεν{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} by the same hand as the BF hydria Boston 01.8060. {2} as reported by
Raoul-Rochette, Beazley.
CAVI Comments: Once New York, Gould. Now: Reading, PA 32-769-1 (information from J. Neils).
Ex Roman market (Depoletti). Bothmer, apud ABV, points out that C.H. Smith
(1899), 47-48, no. 286, does not mention the inscription; hence it is suspect as
being modern. In `Amazons' he says it is not in any later sales cat. either; he
wonders whether the foot has been replaced. The vase is later than those signed
Charitaios and not connected in style. Neils tells me that the vase has the
signature on the underside of the foot as noted by Raoul-Rochette. The dr. shows
the line nearly horizontal and the two words separated by a space almost two
letter spaces wide; the name is in smaller letters than the verb; the alphabet
is Attic and I think the dr. is not an accurate facsimile. - Further notes: The
words separation recalls that on the potter's signature of Euthymides which I
also find suspicious (see AttScr (1990), 72 n. 41, where I only say that the
word separation is peculiar); Robertson 59 also questions the signature (but see
Cohen (1997), 153 n. 43). The painted signature of Amasis under the foot of
Malibu 76.AE.48, by the Taleides Painter, I also consider doubtful, see AttScr
(1990), 165. and now esp. H. Mommsen (1997), 17-18. For the sp. with kappa and
theta (vs. chi and tau) see Threatte (1980), 464ff. (metathesis).
CAVI Number: 5752
AVI Bibliography: WV (1889), pl. 6,2. — Smith (1899), 47/386 [or 285?, pl. 4]. — Pfuhl (1923),
fig. 247 (chief picture after WV). — Hoppin (1924), 77 (after WV). — Beazley
(1932), 199. — NNN (1932), Art Collection of the late Charles W. Gould (American
Art Association, New York, Oct. 27-29, 1932): 81, left. — ABV (1956), 161. —
Bothmer (1957), 102/131, pl. 63,6 (bibl.). — E-mail from Jennifer Neils of
1/31/1999. — Neils (2002), with fig. 1 (reprints the dr. in WV which includes
the signature).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
