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SAllY RUTHERFURD ROl:lERTS 8'
COMPARE
Berne Historisches Museum. Loaned by Christoph Clairmont.
Fig.9c.
Fragment of loop handle preserved. H. 0.092. total H. prcs.
0.123. D. at rim 0.077. D. of lid 0.105. H. offoot 0.019.
Lid: sheep confronted by a panther and (ollo",.ed by another
panther between two reserved circles. Sidf> of lid: herringbone. At
base of lid a moulding. Interior of lid glazed: bottum: five
concentric circles.
Black band, reserved line above frieze; below: reserved line,
I;Ilack line.
Wedding Painter. Danac ill Scriphos; ARV. 924. .15; AlA 57
(1953) 92·94, pis. SO·52. T.O.L. Webster, Polter ""d Putroll i"
Classical Athem. 263. Notches of foot not indicated on profile
drawing.
The Class of Harvard 1925.30.39 was decorated by artislli
~Ionging to the Pcnthesilea Workshop. The lids prt~r\'ed show
patterns fanliliar from the Pcnthc!l.ilca Workshop I, and especially
from the transitional stage of that workshop. The subject maller.
female genre scenes placed in a frieze arrangement around the
body of the pyxis. framed by simple resen'ed lines. is also typical of
that workshop. The body has a long concave curve st~ngthened at
the base. The striking and unusual feature of the class is the foot
which is low. glazed and of ring formation totally unlike the
concave tripartite ~served foot characteristic of the Penthesilea
Workshop. The vases are small, slightly smaller than those of the
Class of Ol:ford 1961.468. 40 with which most are contemporary.
Five lids are preserved and a drawing of a sixth. which is now lost.
The two knobs preserved are of a casually formed domed shape
and the drawing of the lid. once belonging to Sydney 53.06. shows a
knob of similar profile.
The Harvard (no. I. PI. 54.3) and Toledo (no. 2. Ill. 54,2) pyxides
3re very close with respect to profile. measurements and
decoration, The side of the lid of the Harvard pyxis continues the
concave curve of the body. a canonical feature Qf the Penthesilea
Worbhop 1. The sKle of the lid of the Toledo pyxis is slightl)
con\U. The domed knob of uch is set upon a squat stem "'hich
lopreads and blends into the sloping surface of the lid. The glazed
ring foot is men'ed at the base in each. Except for the contour of
the side of the lids the pyxides are counterparts, made by the same
poner, decorated by the same painter. ooe in red·figure and the
other on white ground,
The pyxis in the Musee National Rodin (no. 3) is slightly taller
than the Harvard and Toledo pyxides. The conca\'e curve of the
walls is acceotuated towards the base. The curvature is noticeable
in llle distortion of the columns. The glaz.ed ring foot is taller and
makes a better basis for the vase,
A pyxis by the Veii Painter in a private collection in Athens (no,
4. PI. 32.1) is very similar in profile and proportions to the Musee
Rodin pyxis. The curve of the walls is accentuated towards the
base, However, the reserved line below the frieze has been set a
good distance in from the edge. minimizing the curvature of the
columns of the frieze, One is reminded of a like treatment on a
while gruund ppis in Ancona by Ihe Splanchnopt Painter of the
Pt!nthesilea Workshop 1. 41 In bolh. room is left for a lower pattern
border, though the space is oOt utiliz.ed.
1 he Exeter pyxis tno, 5. Ill. 54,1) is similar to those of Han'ard
and Basle but possesse'li a ring foot so low that the pyxis appears to
be balancing on the base of the vase itself. The flat upper surface
of the lid is clearly differentiated from the base of the stem much
as in canonical lids of lhe l'enthesilea Workshop I and may be
l'nmpared 10 Athens 1288 (1'1. 21). and Baltimore 48,2019 (PI. 22).
The S)dney pyxis (no. 6, PI. 55.2) is smaller than the olhers of
the class and a little squauer. When the pyxis was published by
St:lckelbcrg in 1837. it still retained its lid with a knob of similar
prolile 10 the Harvard and Toledo pyxides, According to the
dnl\\ing in Stackelberg·z the contour of the vase slopes from tile
ba~e tuwards a flaring ring foot. The Han'ard py"is (no, I, Fig,