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Floral Black-Figured Cups at Schimatari1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Annie D. Ure
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The later developments of black-figured vase painting in Boeotia are known mainly from the finds made at the Theban Kabeirion and from associated Kabeiric vases which are to be found in some numbers in the museums of Europe. Kabeiric is, however, only one of several B.F. styles that had their vogue in Boeotia in the later fifth and fourth centuries. A still commoner is one in which the decoration consists mainly of floral patterns in which the palmette predominates, with occasionally a bird, animal, or a grotesque human figure introduced in a subordinate position. Vases of various shapes with this decoration are found in some abundance in Greek museums, more especially at Thebes, Chaeronea, Schimatari (Tanagra), Chalcis, Nauplia (where the museum possesses two collections, the Nikandros and the Glymenopoulos Collections, both formed mainly in Boeotia), and the National Museum at Athens. They are not from the same potteries as the Kabeiric vases, though they are akin to them. Their artistic merit is slight, and this is no doubt the reason why so few have reached museums outside Greece, and why still fewer have ever been published. Nevertheless, the fact that they exist in considerable numbers of itself makes them historically important, especially as the fabric has well-marked characteristics which render it possible to trace a chronological sequence and perhaps local styles.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , 1926, pp. 54 - 62
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1926

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2 The Boeotian ware dealt with in Pagenstecher, article in A.J.A., 1909, p. 387 ff.Google Scholar, on Hadra vases and their relation to Boeotian, Apulian, and other similar B.F. pottery, consists of only a few examples of not very common types in Heidelberg and Würzburg.

3 Πρακτικά, 1911, p. 153 ff.

4 P. N. Ure, Black Glaze Pottery from Rhitsona, passim.

5 Ure, Sixth and Fifth Century Pottery from Rhitsona, in the press, passim.

6 Sixth and Fifth Century Pottery, Pl. XXIV.

7 Arch. Anz. 1898, p. 133, No. 19.

7a Recently acquired from the collection of Dr. Preyss in Munich.

8 Contemporary with gr. 123 and the Thespian polyandrion.

9 Sixth and Fifth Century Pottery, Pl. XXIV.

10 Baur, Catalogue of the Stoddard Collection, Fig. 44.

11 Kalinka, , Ath. Mitt. 1892, p. 101.Google Scholar

12 Black Glaze Pottery, Pl. X.

13 Sixth and Fifth Century Pottery, Pl. XXV.

14 Ath. Mitt. 1901, p. 143 ff.; cp. especially Compte-Rendu St. Petersburg, 1901, p. 131, Fig. 229.

15 Cp. the ‘elongated animal’ drawn on a fragment of Kabeiric ware in Mawr, Bryn, A.J.A. 1916, p. 317Google Scholar, Fig. 5.

16 The interiors with their broad eon-centric bands of black and ground colour recall very vividly those of the four-handled kylikes of the Boeotian Kylix style of several generations earlier.

17 There is a very similar cup, also from Tanagra, in the magazine of the National Museum at Athens.

18 A presumably later example of the same decoration is seen on the extraordinary cup found by Dr. Keramopoullos at Thebes, , Δελτίον 1917, p. 229Google Scholar, Fig. 165.

19 Gr. 33, No. 50, Black Glaze Pottery, pp. 26 and 29, Pl. XVI.

20 Sixth and Fifth Century Pottery, gr. 123, etc.