Attic black-figure skyphos

<p><br></p> <p>Attic terracotta skyphos (storage jar for wine) with a stemmed base, a deep bowl and twin, upturned loop handles, all upon a concave base. The rim and lip are thin and left red. The exterior walls are decorated with black-figure technique on red background: the deep drinking cup is flanked by two Sphynxes with wings recurved facing each other and with rough details incised. Close to the handles, is a stylized flower. Black glaze bands on the body and handles as well as a concentric circle on the base further adorn the piece. The foot is short with a thick disc mostly red except for the lower section painted in black glaze.</p> <p><u>Stylistic remarks:</u> compare with object numbers 127.007 and 127.017, particularly the flower on 127.017. The style is remarkably similar to that of the Haimon Painter.</p> <p><u>Date:</u> 500–450 B.C.E<br> </p> <p><u>Parallels:</u> exceptionally similar example in style New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1972.118.144, similar in style 06.1021.65, see also 17.230.9, 41.162.125, 56.62.2, 91.1.457, 2021.40.37; Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art ΚΠ0018; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum 86.AE.150; Cambridge, Harvard Art Museums 1960.321.</p> <p><u>References:</u> Walters, H B., Forsdyke, E J., Smith, C. H., <em>Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum</em>, London: BMP, 1893-1925; True, M., and Jiri F., <em>Greek Vases: Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection</em>, Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1983; Keck, J., <em>Studien zur Rezeption fremder Einfluesse in der chalkidischen Keramik. Ein Betrag zur Lokalisierungsfrage</em>, Archaeologische Studien 8, Frankfurt, 1988; Williams, D., <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum</em>, London: The British Museum 9, 1993; Catoni, M. L., <em>Bere vino puro. Immagini del simposio</em>. Milan: Feltrinelli, 2010; Matheson, S. B., <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Attic black-figure amphorae, loutrophoros-amphora, loutrophoros-hydria, hydria, olpai/oinochoai, lekythoi, alabastra, exaleiptra/kothones/plemochoai, pyxides, askos, plate, phiale, skyphoi, cups, and Six's technique lekythos, Boeotian black-figure lekane, kantharoi, skyphos, Attic red-figure bell krater. From the Martin Robertson Collection: Attic black-figure Cassel cup and fragments, red-figure pelike and fragments, white-ground lekythos fragment</em>, Darmstadt: Philipp von Zabern, 2016; Malagardis, N., <em>Skyphoi Attiques à Figures Noires. Typologie et Recherches-Ateliers et Peintres</em>, Athens: Bibliothèque de la Sociététe Archèologique d'Athènes, 2017, p. 50; on the Haimon Painter Penelope T., “Attic White-Ground Pyxis and Phiale, ca. 450 B.C.”, <em>Boston Museum Bulletin</em>, vol. 67, no. 348, pp. 86 and 90; F. F. J. “Four Vases by the Haimon Painter”, <em>Record of the Art Museum</em>, Princeton University, vol. 11, no. 1, Princeton University Art Museum, 1952, pp. 5–9.</p><p>Photo by Steve Morton</p>