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Attic Red-Figure Kylix Fragment
Creator
Foundry PainterPainter
All works by this person →The Foundry Painter decorated pottery using the red-figure technique in Athens during the early fifth century B.C. As with most vase-painters, his real name is unknown, and he is identified only by the stylistic traits of his work. He received the name *Foundry Painter* because one of his vases, now in Berlin, shows a foundry in which bronze workers are making statues. The Foundry Painter probably
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- about 480–470 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Interior. Komast (part of his face, right forearm, most of his left and his legs are missing), reclining on a couch. He hold a drinking cup (type B), and appears to clasp his knee with his right hand. He wears a kidaris and himation. In front of the couch, the upper right corner of the food table. A basket hangs in the background. Stopped meander pattern for tondo border. Exterior: to the left of the handle zone, parts of two komasts: the left foot of one to left, and the lower legs and slippered feet of the second, to right. To the right of the handle, parts of three komasts. Each wears a himation and moves to the right. The first has a cane in his outstretched left hand; the third holds a pointed amphora, decorated with ivy.
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