Inscriptions: Inscription: HE PAIS KALE Inscription: HECHE HESYCHOS
Attributed To: DOURIS by BEAZLEY
Decoration: I: EROTIC, MAN AND NAKED WOMAN, KLINE, CUSHION, STOOL, CLOTH, SPONGE
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 1970.233
Previous Collections:
Luzern, market, Ars Antiqua
Publication Record: Antike Welt: SONDERNUMMER, 58, FIG.94 (I) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 444.241 Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PL.111, NO.233 (I) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 118 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 240 Glazebrook, A. and Henry, M.M. (eds.), Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE - 200 CE (Madison, 2011): 116, FIG.5.3 (I) Kilmer, M.F., Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases (London, 1993): PL. AT P.83, 577 (COLOUR OF I) Neer, R.T., Art and Archaeology of the Greek World, a new history, c.2500-c.150 BC (London, 2012): 209, FIG.8.17 (I) Peschel, I., Die Hetäre bei Symposium und Komos in der attisch rotfigurigen Malerei des 6.-4. Jhs. v.Chr. (Frankfurt, 1987): PL.180 (I) Richlin, A. (ed.), Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome (Oxford, 1992): 12, FIG.1.2 (I) Robson, J., Sex and sexuality in Classical Athens (Edinburgh, 2013): 272, FIG.32 (I) Sanchez, C., Kunst und Erotik in der Antike (Berlin, 2013): 139, FIG.52 (I) Stewart, A., Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 1997): 163, FIG.104 (I)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. Douris, or school piece (ARV[2]){1}. Python, potter (Cahn). First
quarter fifth. Ca. 480 (Cahn). 480-470{2}.
CAVI Subject: Int.: intercourse: woman standing and bending forward; man entering from
behind; at left, head of a couch with a cushion; at right, a bundle of clothes
on a low table (the woman leaning on it); above, at right, strigil and aryballos
hung up. Ext.: plain.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: above the scene, following the margin: hε παις καλε. The man says
(vertically down from below his face, through her body and the BG below): hέχε
hέσυχος{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} B.-O. 40 attributes to Douris himself. {2} late period (B.-O.). {3} "the
earliest evidence for the expression," Beazley. For εχε Beazley refers to Acr.
2644, Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), i, pl. 112 (BF). B.O. in cat. has: hε παι[ς]
κ[αλ]ε. hεχε hεσυ[χ]ος. I am not convinced that the bracketed letters are not
there. Auktion 40 gives the kale-inscription complete but brackets the second
chi in the other inscription. The photos are unclear. Threatte (1996) reads
hεσύχο̅ς, perhaps rightly.
CAVI Comments: Ex Lucerne Market (A.A.). Ex Arlesheim, Schweizer.
