id: 147608 accession number: 1974.10 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.10 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:01.350000 Black-Figure Nikosthenic Amphora (Storage Vessel): Dancing Youths; Sphinxes and Lions; Satyrs and Maenads, c. 530–510 BC. Signed by Nikosthenes (Greek, Attic, active c. 545–510 BC), attributed to Painter N, Thiasos Group (Greek, c. 530–510 BC). Ceramic; diameter: 16.9 cm (6 5/8 in.); overall: 31.1 cm (12 1/4 in.); diameter of rim: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.); diameter of foot: 10.7 cm (4 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1974.10 title: Black-Figure Nikosthenic Amphora (Storage Vessel): Dancing Youths; Sphinxes and Lions; Satyrs and Maenads title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 530–510 BC creation date earliest: -535 creation date latest: -505 current location: 102B Greek creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Greek, Attic technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Nikosthenes (Greek, Attic, active c. 545–510 BC) - potter * Painter N, Thiasos Group (Greek, c. 530–510 BC) - painter Attic vase painter, active ca. 550-540 BCE --- measurements: Diameter: 16.9 cm (6 5/8 in.); Overall: 31.1 cm (12 1/4 in.); Diameter of rim: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.); Diameter of foot: 10.7 cm (4 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscription Under handle A/B: translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1974 opening date: 1975-03-11T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 30-September 5, 1982). --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1974- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The painter of this vase decorated nearly every available surface; the undecorated handle section is modern. digital description: The distinctive shape of this amphora—wide strap handles, conical neck, and ribs running around the upper body—is a trademark of the potter Nikosthenes, who signed his name below the partially restored handle (together with the verb EPOIESEN, for “made”). Nikosthenes signed nearly 150 surviving vases, more than any other named potter or vase-painter. Made in Athens with an Etruscan clientele in mind, Nikosthenic amphorae emulate precious metal and ceramic bucchero vases made in Etruria (central Italy), where many examples have been discovered. The painted figures include dancing youths (on the neck), sphinxes between lions (on the shoulder), and a continuous procession of dancing satyrs alternating with women (on the body). wall description: The distinctive shape of this amphora is a trademark of the potter Nikosthenes, who signed his name below one handle. More than 100 vases are known to be from the same workshop; almost all of them were found in Etruria. Although they were made in Greece, they appealed much more to an Etruscan clientele because the form was modeled on Etruscan metal and clay prototypes. On the neck, two youths dance around a krater. On the shoulder is a sphinx between two lions. On the body is a continuous procession of seven dancing satyrs alternating with six dancing women. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 201945 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/65D53D4C-AE0A-410B-B826-10FFBEF2A5F0 Classical Art page number: p. 9, fig, 16 url: Beazley, J. D. Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. page number: p. 219, No. 24 url: Arias, P. E., and Max Hirmer. A history of 1000 years of Greek vase painting. New York, N.Y.: Abrams, 1962. page number: p. 294, color plate XIII url: Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. page number: p. 122, No. 4 url: Arias, Paolo Enrico. Storia della ceramica di età arcaica, classica ed ellenistica e della pittura di età arcaica e classica. Torino: Soc. Ed. Internazionale, 1963. page number: pl. 57.1 url: Beazley, J. D., J. D. Beazley, and J. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. page number: 104 url: Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. page number: pp. 26-27, PLS. 60-62, PLS.16, 100.28 url: Eisman, Michael M. "Nikosthenic Amphorai: The J. Paul Getty Museum Amphora." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 1 (1974) page number: p. 43, n. 3 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4166313 Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1974." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (1975): 62-102. page number: p. 65, fig. 1 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152580 EISMAN, MICHAEL M. "Attic Kyathos Production." Archaeology 28, no. 2 (1975). page number: p. 82 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41705942 Tiverios, M. "The 'Tyrrhenian' (Attic) Amphorae, Their Relation to 'Pontic' (Etruscan) Amphorae and to Nikosthenes" (in Greek) Archaiologike Ephemeris (1976). page number: pl. 20a url: Simon, Erika, Max Hirmer, and Albert Hirmer. Die Griechischen Vasen. München: Hirmer, 1976. page number: pp. 81-82, color pl. XXII url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 22 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n42 Kontoleōn, Nikolaos Michaēl. Stēlē: tomos eis mnēmēn Nikolaou Kontoleontos. Athēna: To Sōmateion tōn philōn tou Nikolaou Kontoleontos, 1980. . page number: pl. 80 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 10, fig. 12 url: Schöne, Angelika. Der Thiasos: eine ikonographische Untersuchung über das Gefolge des Dionysos in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jhs. v. Chr. Göteborg: P. Åström, 1987. page number: p. 278, no, 247 url: Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. page number: p. 58 url: Baumann, Hellmut, William T. Stearn, and Eldwyth Ruth Stearn. The Greek Plant World in Myth, Art, and Literature. Portland, Or: Timber Press, 1993. page number: p. 218, fig. 433 url: Immerwahr, Henry R. A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI). [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1998. page number: p. 792, no. 3205 url: Tosto, Vincent. The Black-Figure Pottery Signed Nikosthenesepoiesen. Amsterdam: Allard Pierson Museum, 1999. page number: p. 213, no. 28, pl. 16, fig. 32, pl. 68 AP 3.2, pl. 100 url: Smith, Tyler Jo. Komast Dancers in Archaic Greek Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. page number: p. 327, pl. 21c url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.10/1974.10_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.10/1974.10_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.10/1974.10_full.tif