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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
- Object ID
- fd7552d9-3e10-4f22-a945-08cc55cb9c15
From the Getty Museum record
Exterior: preserves folds of himatia with broad black borders and widely spaced dots strewn over the surface, the left thigh and calf of a komast to left, and the left forearm and hand supporting a skyphos held by a komast to right. Below the skyphos is the rim and neck of a column-krater, presumably one standing on the ground. Interior: part of the stopped-meander pattern of the tondo border.
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