Acquisition number: 1974.03
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Attic Black-Figure Cup.
Inside: There is a reserved line within the lip and in the centre is a circular reserved area decorated with a small circle and dot.
A and B: In the handle-band, a rider with lance or spear galloping left; to the right is an onlooker dressed in a himation. There are palmettes to each side by the handles. The rider on A has a particularly long spear which he holds horizontally. The other’s weapon is shorter and is held at an angle. Both wear short chitons. Red was added for the horses’ manes, the riders’ hair, the headband of the onlooker on A and to decorate the garments of both. White was added for the riders’ chitoniskoi. There is no added colour or incision on the palmettes. There is a further reserved band below the handle zone. Reserved too are the insides of the handles, the vertical face of the foot, the resting surface and the underside of the floor. The inner face of the foot is black. All the reserved surfaces are reddened.
Title: Attic Black-Figure Cup - 1974.03
Acquisition number: 1974.03
Attribution: Little Master Tradition.
Culture or period: Archaic Greece.
Date: c. 540 - 520 BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Pottery - Black-figure
Dimensions: 190mm (w) × 70mm (h)
Origin region or location: Greece
Origin city: Athens.
Display case or on loan: 3
Keywords: Greek, Attic, Black Figure, Little Master
Sotheby (London), Sale Cat., 9 July 1973, no. 130, pl. 41; J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 33. Beazley Archive Pottery Database 3399.
1974.03
Attic Black-Figure Cup
Purchased. Ht 7.0cm; diam. 19.0cm.
Intact. The black has been retouched in places; the figurework is not affected but for the head of the rider on side A.
Inside: There is a reserved line within the lip and in the centre is a circular reserved area decorated with a small circle and dot.
A and B: In the handle-band, a rider with lance or spear galloping left; to the right is an onlooker dressed in a himation. There are palmettes to each side by the handles. The rider on A has a particularly long spear which he holds horizontally. The other’s weapon is shorter and is held at an angle. Both wear short chitons. Red was added for the horses’ manes, the riders’ hair, the headband of the onlooker on A and to decorate the garments of both. White was added for the riders’ chitoniskoi. There is no added colour or incision on the palmettes. There is a further reserved band below the handle zone. Reserved too are the insides of the handles, the vertical face of the foot, the resting surface and the underside of the floor. The inner face of the foot is black. All the reserved surfaces are reddened.
The decoration of this piece shows the continuation of the Little Master tradition in its small finely drawn figures, and its organisation is reminiscent of that of the band-cup: that is, with the lip black and the decoration in the band at the level of the handles, even though the lip is no longer offset. Compare 1976.09, Class of the Top-Band Stemlesses.
Sotheby (London), Sale Cat., 9 July 1973, no. 130, pl. 41; J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 33. Beazley Archive Pottery Database 3399.