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Attic Red-Figure Kalpis Fragment
Creator
Kleophrades PainterPainter
All works by this person →Working in Athens in the period from about 505 to 475 B.C, the Kleophrades Painter was a prolific vase-painter--more than one hundred vases attributed to him survive. He very likely was the pupil of Euthymides, one of the group of the red-figure Pioneers. He primarily worked in the red-figure technique but occasionally used the black-figure technique with enough facility that he may have been trai
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- 500–480 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Fragment from the shoulder of the vase, with the head and torso of a masturbating satyr. Bald and bearded, his frontal face is upturned, and he raises his left arm upward. Above his head is an inscription that reads ["I see] two suns". The scene is framed by a band of pomegranate net pattern on the left, and a meander band above. Another fragment from the same scene ([81.AE.206.C.15](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/107266/attributed-to-kleophrades-painter-attic-red-figure-kalpis-fragment-comprised-of-6-joined-fragments-part-of-85ae188-greek-attic-500-480-bc/)) shows a sleeping maenad to the right.
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