AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED PELIKE

ATTRIBUTED TO THE PLOUSIOS PAINTER CIRCA 520-510 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED PELIKE
attributed to the plousios painter
circa 520-510 b.c.
Each side with the same scene with slight variations in which two bearded men sit at a gaming table, each wearing a himation wrapped around his waist and legs, the man to the left seated on a stool, resting his chin on the end of a staff which he holds with his left hand, his right hand with two fingers extended proclaiming that he has just thrown a two, the man to the right seated on a chair, its curved back terminating in a swan head, leaning forward to retrieve the dice with his right hand, his left hand raised above his head and resting on the top of his staff, a large krater with down-turned handles below the table, a vine growing behind, imitation inscriptions in the field, a dotted lotus-bud chain above, graffito on the underside of the foot; some details in added red
14¼ in. (36.19 cm) high

Literature

Bothmer, "Les vases de la collection Campana," Revue du Louvre 27 (1977) 216.
Guy in Leipen, et al., Glimpses of Excellence, A Selection of Greek Vases and Bronzes from the Elie Borowski Collection, no. 7.

Exhibited

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 18 December 1984 to 30 June 1985

Lot Essay

The Plousios Painter, whose hand is recognized by Dietrich von Bothmer in four other vases (pelikai in the Louvre and Vatican; neck-amphorae in Boston and Haifa), takes his name from an invocation to Zeus on the Vatican neck amphora (see Guy, op. cit., p. 11).

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