ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF RODIN 1000, CIRCA 500 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED SKYPHOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF RODIN 1000, CIRCA 500 B.C.
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high

Provenance

Said to be from Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
Private Collection, Hamburg, prior to 1943.
Private Collection, France.
The Property of a Gentleman; Antiquities, Christie's, London, 8 July 1992, lot 119.

Literature

E. Von Mercklin, “Ein Skyphos aus der Weskstatt des Theseusmalers,” Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1943, pp. 1-14, pls. 1-4.
J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 521, 2.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 330724.

Lot Essay

Depicted on this large skyphos are Perseus, Athena and Hermes on one side, fleeing the three Gorgon sisters on the other, all flying above the waves populated by dolphins in added white. Additional winged dolphins fill the spaces under each handle. In Attic vase-painting the scene typically shows Medusa decapitated (as seen, for example, on a black-figured neck-amphora by the Painter of London B76, no. 81 in J.M. Padgett, The Centaur's Smile) but here she inexplicably still retains her head.

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