Head Shaped Kantharos
The heads of a bearded satyr and a woman, back to back, finely modeled, support the two-handled cup, on which the design is painted. On this side the Satyr's representation: around his forehead is a row of curls, prominently modeled in spiral form, and left red. The flesh of the bearded satyr is vermilion; his lips, which are parted, purple, the teeth white, separated by brown lines; his beard is in black glaze, scored with nine wavy lines in the soft clay. His moustache, long and flowing, is modeled, and has been colored brown.
The images painted on the cup surface, probably, represent a satyric scene is. Within a cave, indicated by an irregularly-shaped mass of overhanging rock on right, Dionysos (?), bearded, with long hair and mantle, reclines to left against two striped cushions, holding in his left against his breast a cotyle. He extends his right to push away a bearded satyr in the background, who dances towards him, bending over him with both arms raised in a grotesque attitude, as if he were trying to obtain the cotyle. On the left, a second satyr is seated on a square base looking on, and resting his left on a thyrsos, from the head of which two ivy-branches sprout; he extends his right towards the group with a gesture of command. All three figures wear fillets. In the field, KAΛΟΣ, καλός.
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Attic janiform red-figured kantharos
Diameter: 12.7 cm; height: 20.3 cm
Attributed to: The Toronto Class by Beazley
Circa 470 BC
Vase number Ε786.
London, The British Museum, Inv. No. 1885,0711.1
Head Shaped Kantharos
The heads of a bearded satyr and a woman, back to back, finely modeled, support the two-handled cup, on which the design is painted. On this side the Satyr's representation: around his forehead is a row of curls, prominently modeled in spiral form, and left red. The flesh of the bearded satyr is vermilion; his lips, which are parted, purple, the teeth white, separated by brown lines; his beard is in black glaze, scored with nine wavy lines in the soft clay. His moustache, long and flowing, is modeled, and has been colored brown.
The images painted on the cup surface, probably, represent a satyric scene is. Within a cave, indicated by an irregularly-shaped mass of overhanging rock on right, Dionysos (?), bearded, with long hair and mantle, reclines to left against two striped cushions, holding in his left against his breast a cotyle. He extends his right to push away a bearded satyr in the background, who dances towards him, bending over him with both arms raised in a grotesque attitude, as if he were trying to obtain the cotyle. On the left, a second satyr is seated on a square base looking on, and resting his left on a thyrsos, from the head of which two ivy-branches sprout; he extends his right towards the group with a gesture of command. All three figures wear fillets. In the field, KAΛΟΣ, καλός.
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Attic janiform red-figured kantharos
Diameter: 12.7 cm; height: 20.3 cm
Attributed to: The Toronto Class by Beazley
Circa 470 BC
Vase number Ε786.
London, The British Museum, Inv. No. 1885,0711.1