Manner of Elbows Out Painter

Greek, Attic, ca. 550/540 – 520 B.C.

Terracotta

H: 8.80 cm – D including the handles: 18.0 cm

PROVENANCE: Ex- US private collection.

EXHIBITED: San Antonio Museum of Art, 1997- 2015.

Serial NO: 32710  

The shape of this drinking vessel is well-proportioned; the semi-spherical cup with two horizontal handles is based on a tall cylindrical foot of almost the same height. The wall is decorated with the band reserved for the figural depiction which presents the frieze of six walking animals. Each side has a heraldic composition: the figure of panther is placed in the center and surrounded by figures of the deer. The details of anatomy are incised and also marked by the purple paint.  The representation of similar pairs of animals has certainly a decorative quality, the energetically curving tail of the panther is echoed in the spiral line made by incision and depicting the shoulder of the animals.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BEAZLEY J., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, pp. 248-252.

VON BOTHMER D., Elbows Out, in Revue Archéologique, 1969, pp. 3-15.