Attic Red-Figure Pelike Fragment

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Attic Red-Figure Pelike Fragment

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Kleophrades Painter

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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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Date: about 490–480 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Greek (Attic)
Department: Vessels
Institution: Getty Museum

Fragment from neck and body, with the upper right quadrant of the figure panel. Exterior: woman sitting to left (head only). She wears a fillet bound several times around her head, with her hair in a krobylos. A cloth or garment hangs at the left edge of the fragment. Band of key pattern above; pomegranate net pattern at right. Interior glazed, heavily to a depth of 5.5 cm from the preserved top edge. Adapted from Neer, R., CVA Malibu 7 (1997).

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