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A New Vase signed by Pamphaios

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

By the courtesy of the Hon. Marshall Brooks I am able to publish here a red-figure kylix now in his possession at Portal, Tarporley.

Of the provenance of the vase nothing is known. The present owner has kindly supplied me with the following particulars, which are all that is known of its history since its discovery. It formed part of the collection of Greek vases and Greek and Etruscan antiquities belonging to Miss Caroline Augusta Tulk, of Failand House, Bristol, which in 1864, after her death, was sold by auction by Messrs. Fargus Brothers of Bristol. At this sale it was acquired by Mr. Edward Preston, from whose collection it passed by purchase into that of the present owner, a few years ago. In the Sale catalogue of 1864 the number of the kylix was 270. This is the only printed record of the vase which I have been able to trace. This fact is the more remarkable since the foot bears the name of the potter Pamphaios, already well known and associated with some of the most notable of Greek vase-paintings; and apart from this, the quality of the draughtsmanship on side A of the exterior is such as to claim attention on its own account. Fortunately, this side is the least damaged part of the vase; the rest has suffered a good deal from breakage and from restoration not too well carried out.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1923

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References

1 The former were executed for me by Mr. Frederick Foster, of Old Tranord, Manchester. For the photographs I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Guppy, of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, in whose custody the vase was placed for this purpose, and who also gave me every facility for examining it.

2 As in Euripides, , Herc. Fur., 370 ff.Google Scholar

3 Viz. B.M. 1907, 10–20; B.M. E 815; Todi kylix in the Villa Giulia (= Nos. 12, 13, 19 bis in Hoppin's list).

4 For tails interrupted by handle-ends, compare the Pamphaios kylix B.M. E 11 (= No. 8 of Pamphaios in Hoppin), where the tails of the pegasi are continued under the handles and almost meet.

5 Hoppin, Vol. II. p. 277, makes the number of complete vases signed by Pamphaios, and available for comparison, 21, or 23 counting the two signed also by the painter Epiktetos. But he counts one, which was already in Klein's list, twice over (Hoppin, No. 19). The total should therefore be 20, or, counting Epiktetos' two, 22.