[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Title
- [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Skyphos Vase E149
- Creator
- Penelope Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Penelope Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 450-420 BCE)
- Description
- Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 5, British Museum 4, London, BMP, 1929 Pottery: red-figured skyphos. (a) Dancing lesson (?). Before a youth on left, who wears a mantle shawl-fashion hanging from his arms, and who steps forward as if in time to the chelys which he plays, a younger youth. dances, his right leg bent and raised from the ground, his right hand on the crown of his head, his left on his side. Over each figure, ΚΑΛΟΣ, καλός. (b) Two bearded men walking to right. The foremost one strides rapidly, turning round and raising his right as if to warn back his companion. He holds a staff in his left and a mantle hangs from his left fore-arm. The other figure is partly bald over the forehead; he steps slowly to right, leaning his right on a crooked staff; in his left he carries a chelys, and a mantle on his left arm hangs over his shoulder behind. Over each figure, ΚΑΛΟΣ, καλός. Purple inscriptions; inner markings in brown; sketch marks in a colour which shows light against the ruddled surface. On the chest of the left figure in (b) is a splash of paint. Eye in developed profile type, with eyelash. Below the figures a band of ornament runs all round the vase, consisting of groups of three maeanders running alternately different ways, separated by red cross squares. Below the handle, an elaborate quadruple palmette ornament with tendrils and buds. --The British Museum
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation ) Nola, Campania, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- 440-430 BCE
- Subject
- Ariadne Painter Briseis Painter Hektor Painter Nousikaa Painter, Sappho Painter Penelope Painter Polygnotos Painter Pottery V Red Figure, White, Animal Telephos Painter
- Style Period
- Red-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- skyphoi
- Date
- -0440/-0430
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_06202
- Item Locator
- Box 14, Section 5
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 22.86 cm Diameter: 20.32 cm
- Material
- pottery | painted
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Attic (culture)
- Id Current Repository
- 1867,0508.1118
