Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE STAMNOS
attributed to the Pan Painter
Circa 480-470 B.C.
Side A: A bearded priest in the center standing behind a low voluted altar, wearing a voluminous, dotted festive robe, holding a kantharos in his right hand, and small objects in added red, possibly incense, with youthful attendants on either side, both wearing a short garment tied around the waist, the figure on the left holding a flower in his left hand and a black oinochoe in his right hand, from which he has just poured into the priest's kylix, the figure on the right balancing a kanoun (tray-like basket) on his right hand
Side B: A a mousikoi agon (musical competion) with a youth in the center, facing right, wearing a voluminous dotted festive robe with a striped fringe over a sleeved garment, playing the aulos (double pipes) which are held in both hands and strapped in place by a phorbeia (mouth band), behind the contestant stands a bearded judge in profile to the right, wearing a himation, with a rhabdos (forked wand) in his right hand, a staff in his left, and to the right, facing left, another bearded man wearing a himation, a staff in his right hand
A band of meander with saltire squares below the scenes, a band of tongue on the shoulders, and a band of tongue on the rim, repaired from multiple fragments, minor losses, repaired in antiquity as evinced by the drilled areas which had recieved lead or bronze clamps
14 9/16in. (37cm.) high
Provenance
Ruspoli Collection, Rome
Knoedler and Co.
Literature
Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed., Vol. I, p. 552, no. 23 (19), from Cervetri.
Beazley, Der Pan-Maler, no. 22.
Beazley, The Pan Painter, no. 19 (17).
Beazley, CVA, Oxford 1, p. 6.
Philippake, The Attic Stamnos, p. 107
Exhibited
Goddess and Polis, The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens, The Art Museum, Princeton University, August 31-November 28, 1993 (not in catalogue).
