AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE PSYKTER (WINE-COOLER), attributed to the Acheloos Painter, 520-510 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE PSYKTER (WINE-COOLER), attributed to the Acheloos Painter, 520-510 B.C.

Depicting a symposion. Three bearded and ivy-crowned men recline on a couch, two with hounds below, a third with crouching bitch; beside two of the figures are wine kraters. At the foot of each couch sits a hetaira on a stool, two wearing ivy crowns, a third wearing a red fillet; each holds vine tendrils. A late-comer, bearded and wearing an ivy wreath and holding on to his cloak, runs in to left; a hound chewing a bone is reclining beside him

Added white and red decoration

On the neck a graffio

Condition: composed from fragments; the remains of bronze rivets used for repair in antiquity still visible

11¾in. (29.7cm.) high

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Antike Kunst, 22, 1979, pt. 2, pl. 1; E. Moignard, The Acheloos Painter and Relations, BSA, 77, 1982, 201-212 (this vase is 209, no. 10, 210, 211 and pl. 14a-b). M. und M., Auktion 56, 19 Februar 1980, p. 34, no. 77, pl. 29. Cahn refers to Stella Drougou's Der Attische Psykter, Beitrage zur Archaeologie 9, 1975, where she numbers fifty pskyters, only sixteen of which are black-figure and without handles; cf., id. p. 14 A 12 and pl. 5 1-2 for an almost identical composition on a psykter in Tarquinia (RC 6823) but the painting and potting differ.

The pskyter is an unusual shape for the Leagros Group. The Acheloos Painter was a leading artist of the Leagros Group: "The Acheloos Painter can be singled out for his robustly original myth scenes and the wit of his antithesis of love, sacred and profane (211)." Boardman, ABFV, 111, figs. 208-211