ATTRIBUTED TO EPIKETOS, CIRCA 520-500 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED KYLIX
ATTRIBUTED TO EPIKETOS, CIRCA 520-500 B.C.
The tondo with a hetaira reclining to the right, leaning against a striped pillow, a himation gathered below her thighs, its corner cascading down in zigzag folds over the edge of the kline, the kline shown as a narrow slat, the hetaira depicted nude with her legs bent, her feet braced against the tondo border, holding a kylix by the foot in her left hand, and gripping the handle of another in her extended right, her hair bound in a sakkos, a fringe of hair framing her forehead, inscribed in Greek, epoiese, or made me, in added red
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high

來源

Acquired by the current owner's family in France in the late 19th-early 20th century.

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G. Max Bernheimer

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The vase painter Epiktetos was active in Athens during the last two decades of the 6th century and the first decade of the 5th century B.C. Beazley thought him a pupil of the Andokides Painter and the Pioneers. He specialized in small vases, including plates, and especially cups, with many only decorated, as here, on the interior. Over a hundred have been attributed to his hand, and nearly half are signed. He worked for several potters, including Hischylos and the Nikosthenes-Pamphaios workshop. Of his work, Beazley (Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums, p. 18) proclaimed "You cannot draw better, you can only draw differently."