Attic red-figure Pelike (attributed to the manner of the Nausicaä Painter)
Creators: name: Museum, Centre for Ancient Cultures
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
Heritage, archive and museum studies not elsewhere classified
Archaeology not elsewhere classified
Ceramics
Classical Greek and Roman history
Other history, heritage and archaeology not elsewhere classified

description: References: Walters, H B., Forsdyke, E J., Smith, C. H., <em>Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum</em>, London: BMP, 1893-1925; Richter, G. M. A. and Hall, L. F., <em>Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art</em>, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1936, no. 72, pp. 100–1, pls. 75, 173; Richter, G. M. A., <em>Handbook of the Greek Collection</em>, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953, p. 84; Beazley, J. D., <em>Attic Red-figure Vase-painters</em>, Vols. 1 and 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963, p. 1107, no. 10; Maffre, J-J., "Deux pélikai attiques à figures rouges trouvées à Thasos", <em>Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique</em>, 1972, 96(1): p. 336 n. 17; Padgett, M., <em>Phineus and the Boreads on a pelike by the Nausica painter</em>, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1991; Mannack, T., <em>The Late Mannerists in Athenian Vase Painting</em>, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, no. N10, p. 137. Attic red-figured storage-jar. The vase has a bulbous body with sloping shoulders; it is painted in black glaze with broad foot, two vertical handles. The rounded torus rim is painted in black. The figured scenes on both sides are bordered at the top by an ivy-wreath within reserved bands. Below the band is undecorated. On one side (a), the mythical birth of Dionysus from a thigh of Zeus; on the right, a standing frontally woman, possibly the goddess Hera, faces left, her hair is tied up with a wreath of ivies, and wears a peplos with an overfold (apoptygma). In front of her, on the left, a sitting Zeus, bearded and wearing himation and chiton; in his right hand holds a long stick, possibly a scepter. The wine god stands on the lap of Zeus holds in his hands a wine cup on the right and a vine in the other. On the other side (b), two young and draped men are represented facing each other. The one of the right bends on a walking stick; the one of the left wears a cloak over a chiton that obscures his arms. Both scenes are enclosed in vertical geometrical bands with chain of dots pattern. Stylistic remarks: The vessel forms part of the group of potteries attributed to the Nausicaä Painter. Object number: 127.032. Date: 460–440 B.C. Parallels: extremely similar examples New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 06.1021.144 (Nausicaä Painter); compare with the style of 41.162.69 (e.g. ivy-frieze, faces, position of standing old man on the right; Nausicaä Painter); compare the style of London, British Museum 1846,0128.1 (Nausicaä Painter); details of Paris, Louvre G 345 (Nausicaä Painter); for the scene of mythical birth Ferrara, National Archaeological Museum of Ferrara 2737; for the scene of two youths London, British Museum 1859,0216.111 and Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 0300680060, 1600014003.