Lot Essay
The Eucharides Painter takes his name from a kalos inscription on his stamnos in Copenhagen. He was a pupil of the Nikoxenos Painter, and like him, also worked in black-figure.
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ATTRIBUTED TO THE EUCHARIDES PAINTER CIRCA 490-480 B.C.
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED VOLUTE-KRATER
attributed to the eucharides painter
circa 490-480 b.c.
The lower register of the neck with a series of nude youths training their hounds, one side with a frontal squatting youth who scolds a dog that sniffs his right foot, the youth also holding the leash of a second, more obedient, dog to the right, to their left a youth squatting on his bent left knee reaches towards the neck of his dog, the leash in his hand, and further to the left a third youth in similar pose turns back towards his companions, his left hand raised as if to strike the dog's flank; the other side with a similar group of squatting youths with two dogs, and to their left a youth squatting on his bent left knee struggles with his restive dog who pulls away, his head turned back to his master, the upper register of the neck with elegant lyriform palmettes, with rays above the foot, a key pattern between black bands on the rim, tongues around the handles, and ivy on the sides of the volutes, with added red on the outer edges and inner spirals of the volutes, and a red band on the interior of the rim, graffito on the underside of the foot deeply incised
211/8 in. (53.66 cm) high
attributed to the eucharides painter
circa 490-480 b.c.
The lower register of the neck with a series of nude youths training their hounds, one side with a frontal squatting youth who scolds a dog that sniffs his right foot, the youth also holding the leash of a second, more obedient, dog to the right, to their left a youth squatting on his bent left knee reaches towards the neck of his dog, the leash in his hand, and further to the left a third youth in similar pose turns back towards his companions, his left hand raised as if to strike the dog's flank; the other side with a similar group of squatting youths with two dogs, and to their left a youth squatting on his bent left knee struggles with his restive dog who pulls away, his head turned back to his master, the upper register of the neck with elegant lyriform palmettes, with rays above the foot, a key pattern between black bands on the rim, tongues around the handles, and ivy on the sides of the volutes, with added red on the outer edges and inner spirals of the volutes, and a red band on the interior of the rim, graffito on the underside of the foot deeply incised
211/8 in. (53.66 cm) high
Literature
Schauenburg, "Zu einem spätarchaischen Kolonetten-krater in Lugano," in Quaderni Ticinesi di numismatica e antichità classiche 11, fig. 22n.41.
Guy in Leipen, et al., Glimpses of Excellence, A Selection of Greek Vases and Bronzes from the Elie Borowski Collection, no. 11.
Guy in Leipen, et al., Glimpses of Excellence, A Selection of Greek Vases and Bronzes from the Elie Borowski Collection, no. 11.
Exhibited
Antikenmuseum, Basel (loan)
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 18 December 1984 to 30 June 1985
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 18 December 1984 to 30 June 1985