Decoration: A,B: AGRICULTURE (?), WOMEN AT FRUIT TREE, WITH BASKETS, PICKING FRUIT
Last Recorded Collection: Whitby, Mulgrave Castle, Lord Normanby
Publication Record: Batino, S., Lo skyphos attico dall'iconografia alla funzione (Naples, 2002): 476, FIG.68 (B) Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 353.1 Bulletin van de Vereeniging tot Bevordering der Kennis van de Antieke Beschaving: 90 (2015) 48, FIG.11 (A) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 136-138, FIG.139 (A) Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: VIII, PL.46, CAT.88 (A)
CAVI Subject: A: two women at a fruit (apple?) tree: the left-hand woman holds a fruit and
a basket, the right-hand one a fruit in each hand. B: similar: the left-hand
woman holds fruit and basket, the right-hand one, frontal, holds fruit and
kalathos.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: three-liner: Πιστοχσενος | [Σ]υρισκος | εποι[εσ]εν. The left-hand woman:
[--]αι[--] or Αι[--]. The right-hand woman: Χορο.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} resembles the Syriskos and Copenhagen Painters; could be unusually
precise work by the Syriskos (Beazley); but see Robertson who thinks that
Pistoxenos and Syriskos are the same man: when the `little Syrian' was given his
freedom, he was named `trusty stranger' and the double signatures celebrate this
event.
CAVI Comments: Only two works, a cup-skyphos and this skyphos, are attributed to this
painter by Beazley; both are in Mulgrave Castle. The signatures are discussed by
Robertson (1976), 42f. and in Robertson (1992).
