ATTRIBUTED TO THE RYCROFT PAINTER, CIRCA 510 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED KALPIS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE RYCROFT PAINTER, CIRCA 510 B.C.
17 5/8 in. (44.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Private Collection, Germany.
A German Private Collector; Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 10-11 December 1992, lot 526.
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 1993.

Literature

Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 20290.

Lot Essay

The Rycroft Painter takes his name from an amphora previously in the Rycroft collection, later in the Spencer-Churchill collection (p. 335, no. 1 in J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-figure Vase-painters). The struggle between Apollo and Herakles over the Delphic tripod, as seen on the kalpis presented here, was a subject treated numerous times by the Rycroft Painter, sometimes in the presence of a deer, as here. See for example the amphora in the British Museum, no. 2 in Beazley, op. cit.

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