Decoration: A: APOLLO SEATED WITH KITHARA AND PHIALE, ARTEMIS WITH OINOCHOE, LETO WITH SCEPTRE AND SPRIG, COLUMN B: DRAPED YOUTHS, SOME WITH STAFFS
Last Recorded Collection: San Francisco (CA), Legion of Honour: 1874A
Previous Collections:
London, market, Sotheby's
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 617.1 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 425.16 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 339.27 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: SAN FRANCISCO, M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM AND CALIFORNIA PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONOR, 40-41, PLS.(478,479) 18.2A-B,19.2A-C View Whole CVA Plates Sotheby, sale catalogue: 23.5.1921, NO.240
CAVI Collection: San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor 1814a.
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Athens{1}. Spreckels Painter. Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Leto; Apollo seated, with a lyre and phiale; a column; Artemis pouring for
Apollo; Apollo's bow and and quivver hung up. B: a boy between two youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Above Leto: καλε. Under the quivver: καλος. Above Apollo's head: καλος{2}.
Above Artemis: καλ[ε].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so stated in Sotheby (1921), no. 240. {2} this and the last must be above
each other.
CAVI Comments: This vase imitates the Niobid Painter (Beazley); the attribution is H.R.W.
Smith's, accepted by Beazley. Probably mixed alphabet.
CAVI Number: 7457
AVI Bibliography: Webster (1935), 21/27. — H.R.W. Smith, CVA San Francisco 1, USA 10 (1943),
pls. 18,2 and 19,2. — ARV[2] (1963), 617/1. — Add.[2] (1989), 269.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
