Decoration: A: COURTING, DRAPED YOUTHS WITH STAFFS, WOMEN, ONE WITH ALABASTRON B: COURTING, DRAPED MEN WITH STAFFS, SOME WITH PURSE, WOMEN, ONE WITH ALABASTRON I: DOMESTIC, WOMAN WITH FLOWER, STOOL, KALATHOS, MIRROR SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E51
Publication Record: Arethusa: 50.2 (2017) 154, FIG.8 (I) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 449.4, 1653 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 208.115 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 376 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 9, 41-42, FIGS.01C, 02F, 08C, PLS.(813-814) 37.A-B, 38.A-B Hubbard, T.K. (ed.), A companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities (Malden, 2014): 45, FIG.3.10 (B) Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 103 (1988) 104, FIG.8 (B) Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 318, 511, PL.23 (I, COLOUR OF I) Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Phyta kai Zoia. Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Österreich, Band 2 (Vienna, 2015): 47, FIGS.1-2 (COLOUR OF I, DRAWING OF PART OF I) Murray, A.S., Designs from Greek vases in the British Museum (London, 1894): FIG.31 (I) Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.462 (I) Schmidt, S., Rhetorische Bilder auf attischen Vasen, Visuelle Kommunikation im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Berlin, 2005): 249, FIG.123 (B)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Vulci. Painter of London E 55 (Guy){1}. Python, potter. First
quarter fifth. 480-470 (Williams).
CAVI Subject: Int.: woman smelling a flower; at left, part of a couch; at right, kalathos
and mirror. A: conversation of youths (one with a coin?) and hetaerae, similar
to B. B: conversation of three bearded men (one with a purse) with two
hetaerae{2}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: to the woman's left, starting above the couch and reaching to her face:
hε παις καλος{3}. The mirror is said to have a Gr. "G or L" (Williams).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Manner of Douris (Beazley). {2} Beazley says only: A: youths and women.
B: men and women. {3} so BM Cat. Confusion of two inscriptions, no doubt
referring to the woman.
CAVI Comments: Beazley compares London E 55 (q.v.), ARV[2] 449/3, which he describes as a
stiff imitation of Douris' middle period. Hartwig attributed the cup to Douris,
C. Smith att. the Int. to Douris, the Ext. to a follower. Williams wonders if
the potting is not by a follower of Python rather than by himself. The women are
no doubt hetaerae. C. Smith says the gestures on B indicate bargaining; Williams
gives bibl. for counting with the fingers of the hand and prices.
CAVI Number: 4464
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 75-76. — ARV[2] (1963), 449/4 (bibl.), 1653.
— Para. (1971), 376. — Webster (1973), pl. 10 (Int.). — Guy (1982), [[n.p.]]. —
M. Meyer (1988), 95, fig. 4 (Int.) and 204, fig. 8 (A). — D. Williams, CVA
London 9, Great Britain 17 (1993), 41/26, pls. 37-38, fig. 8,c (profile). —
Buitron-Oliver (1995), 7 (mention).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
