| Collection: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| Summary: | Side A: Confronting lions. Side B: Floral pattern. |
| Ware: | Attic Black Figure |
| Painter: | Attributed to the KX Painter |
| Attributed By: | J.D. Beazley |
| Context: | From Greece |
| Date: | ca. 575 BC - ca. 550 BC |
| Dimensions: | H 0.114 m D 0.165 m |
| Primary Citation: | |
| Shape: | Skyphos |
| Beazley Number: | 300297 |
| Region: | Greece |
| Period: | Archaic |
Condition:
Paint flaking.
Decoration Description:
Side A: Two lions are confronted. They stand with bodies facing and chests touching, but arch their necks to look over their shoulders. Their tails are in S-curves, their mouths open and tongues sticking out.
Side B: There is a complex double lotus-palmette pattern. Payne (200) compares it to a floral ornament on a dinos by Sophilos.
On both sides, below the decoration, are two rows of alternate black and red checks, and below that a band of fine rays, just above the foot, which is painted black. The vessel has a deep bowl with two horizontal handles near the edge. The decoration is in lustrous black glaze with added purple-red.
Boardman (18) notes that the KX Painter's lions are particularly distinctive, with big ear locks (such as those on the A side of this vase).
Shape Description: The KX painter frequently decorated skyphoi (whereas other painters in the Komast group preferred cups) (Boardman 19)
Material Description:
The clay is red, with occasional bits of chalk and fine particles of mica.
Collection History:
Perkins collection, 1897.
Sources Used:
Other Bibliography:
Hesperia XIII (1944) 45AM 62(1937) 133, pl. 59,1