A kalos inscription reading "HO PAIS KALOS" ("the boy is beautiful") appears above the head and knee of the symposiast.Įxterior: Reserved except for black glaze on the base ring and in a wide circular band in the center of the plate.
RIPE FREE STYLE: (2) THE MEIDIAS PAINTER. The figure is a participant in a Greek symposium (drinking party) and is shown playing the popular game of kottabos, in which contestants attempted to hit various types of targets with wine dregs flung from the bottom of a kylix. PHINTIAS, EUPHRONIOS, AND EUTHYMIDES was published in Attic Red-Figured Vases in. Hanging on the wall at his feet is a flute case of spotted animal skin. A wreath, now so worn as to be all but invisible, dangles from his left hand. With the forefinger of his outstretched right hand, he holds a kylix by the handle. Interior: A reclining male figure, draped from the waist down, leans against a doubled-over bolster. Euphronios seems to have taken over a pottery workshop around 500 BC. The Bryn Mawr Painter was named by Sir John Beazley for a plate in the Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections (the Bryn Mawr Painter's namepiece).
It was bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 for the then record-breaking price of 1 million, and is now thought to have been excavated illegally in Italy in 1971. Red-figured plate by the Bryn Mawr Painter on which a bearded symposiast plays kottabos. The Euphronios (Sarpedon) krater is a red-figure calyx krater made in Athens circa 515 BC, signed by Euxitheos as potter and Euphronios as painter.
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