Ancient Greece, Athens (Attic), attributed to the Douris Painter, ca. 480 to 470 BCE. An Attic red-figure kylix fragment, depicting two figures, one draped in a flowing garment and appearing to face forward and the other a nude male in profile with an erect penis. This piece has been attributed to the Douris Painter. For more about the Douris Painter, see the biographical statement from the J. Paul Getty Museum in the extended description below. Size: 3.35" W x 3.3" H (8.5 cm x 8.4 cm); 4.55" H (11.6 cm) on included custom stand.
According to the Getty Museum, "One of the most prolific vase-painters known, Douris worked as a vase-painter and occasionally as a potter in Athens in the early 400s B.C. He is known from almost forty signed vases, two of which he also potted. Altogether, almost three hundred vases have been attributed to him. Given that scholars estimate a less than 0.5% survival rate for Greek vases, Douris may have decorated about 78,000 vases in his career. Douris primarily decorated red-figure cups, but he also painted a few vessels of other forms and in other techniques, including white-ground. His scenes are about evenly divided between mythology and depictions of everyday life. He worked with a number of potters, including Kleophrades and Euphronios, but he seems to have had a regular collaboration with Python. Onesimos depicted a cup signed by Douris on one of his vases, and there is even an ancient forgery of Douris's signature. These unusual references attest to Douris's significant influence among contemporary vase-painters."
Provenance: private Connecticut, USA collection; ex F. Schultz collection, New York, USA, early 1980s; ex A.S. Richter collection, California, USA
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Condition
Piece is a fragment with the edges lightly smoothed. A small, regular opening at the center has been filled in with white material as shown. Great preservation of motifs with very light abrasion and wear, mainly on the reverse.