Decoration: A,B: DRAPED YOUTH SEATED ON STOOL BETWEEN EYES Neck A and B: ATHLETES, TRIPOD BETWEEN YOUTHS BOXING On handle: TRIPOD On rim: DOLPHINS
Last Recorded Collection: Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 68.AE.19
Previous Collections:
London, market, Sotheby's
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 106 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 58 Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 293, FIG.146 (NA) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: (A, B, OH, OR) PLS.6, 65, 66I, 92.14 (A, PROFILE) Seaman, K. and Schultz, P. (eds.), Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne, 2017): 163, FIG.10.4 (SHB) Steinhart, M., Das Motiv des Auges in der griechischen Bildkunst (Mainz, 1995): PL.29.1 (A)
CAVI Subject: Neck: boxers, with a tripod between. Shoulder: A: between eyes, a seated
youth holding on to the eye brows. B: similar, but the youth is fully clothed.
At the mouth: dolphins.
CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: A: on the youth's right: Nικοσθενες εποιεσεν.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Eisman thinks this is a Group not a single painter.
CAVI Comments: Ex London Market (Sotheby). The hand is typical of Painter N. Differently
Eisman: not the usual signature but short stubby letters. E. compares Brussels R
388 and JHS 94 (1974) 172. Also Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg inv. 13,809. Para.
105/4 bis, which is to be separated from the usual Painter N (note the spelling:
Nικοσθενεες ... and the different thiasos).
CAVI Number: 4925
AVI Bibliography: Para. (1971), 106. � Eisman (1974), 43-54, figs. 1-9. � Legakis (1983), 41,
figs. 1-2 (fig. 2 has a close-up of the signature). � Add.[2] (1989), 58. �
Schreiber (1999), 72, pl. 2,5 (front and side).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
