ATTRIBUTED TO THE TOLEDO PAINTER, CIRCA 330-320 B.C.

The Toledo Painter takes his name from a pair of oinochai and a situla in The Toledo Museum of Art. Vases attributed to this painter “show a luxury of color and mastery of design elements not usually seen in Gnathia ware.” (see p. 27 in C.G. Boulter and K.T. Luckner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, The Toledo Museum of Art, Fascicule 2). The example presented here features a mask of Papposilenos applied below one end of the handle, seemingly cast from the same mold used on the namesake situla, while the other end has a comedic mask serving as the spout.