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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
In recent years a number of vases with floral decoration have come to light, and we can now carry a little further the study of the Euboean floral black-figure style of vase-painting started in BSA lv. 211 f. Unfortunately few have any known provenience and it is often hazardous to attempt to distinguish between the work of Euboean and Boeotian workshops. Some of the Euboean attributions here made are tentative, and even when they can be regarded as certain the question of the distribution of the vases within Euboea still remains largely unsolved.
An early example of a vase with decoration that consists entirely of floral elements is a pelike in Athens, Plate 69a, with provenience given in the inventory as ‘Chalcis?’. It has bands of myrtle, ivy, and a kind of laurel with spatulate leaves covering the neck and the upper part of the body, and can be regarded as a precursor of the floral style. It is to be distinguished from it chiefly by the absence of the palmette, which is the chief ingredient of the floral style proper. The stemless ivy leaves accompanied by spots recall the sixth-century skyphos of Chalcidian make, Rhitsona 31. 41 (BSA lviii. 18, pl. 2. 3), and the little stemmed kothon, Athens E1520 (Ibid. pl. 2. 8).
For permission to publish vases in their care I have to thank Mr. Callipolitis and Miss Barbara Philippaki of the National Museum, Athens; the Managing Committee of the British School at Athens; the authorities of the Berlin Staatliche Museen; the committee of the Derby Museum and Art Gallery; Mlle Christiane Dunant of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva; Dr. D. E. Owen of the Manchester Museum. In addition I owe a special debt to the late John Threpsiades, who with great kindness and consideration gave me every facility for studying and photographing vases in Thebes when I spent a vacation working there a few months before his untimely death.
1 See chiefly ‘Euboean Floral Black-figured Vases’ BSA lv (1960) 211 f. Also ‘Some Provincial Black-figure Workshops’, BSA xli (1940–5) 27 f.; ‘Two Groups of Floral Black-figure’, BICS viii (1961) 1 f.; ‘Boeotian Pottery from the Athenian Agora’, Hesperia xxxi (1962) 376 f.; ‘Small Vases from Euboean Workshops' BSA lviii (1963) 14 f. passim; ‘Recent Acquisitions by the Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading’, Archaeological Reports for 1962–63 60.
2 NM inv. 2270. H. 25 cm.
3 For the importation of pottery from Chalcis to Mykalessos (Rhitsona) see BSA lviii. 18.
4 Athens, British School A156, BSA lviii. 16.
5 Inv. 61. 6. 4. H. 11 cm.
6 Nicole 915.
7 BICS xii (1965) pl. 1. 2; Archaeological Reports for 1962–63, 59, fig. 10.
8 Inv. 61. 6. 5. D. 11·5 cm.
8a In a private collection. No provenience known.
9 See Bonn 385, Group A no. 2, AA 1933, 30, fig. 34; Chalcis 1039, Group A no. 5, BSA lv, pl. 53. 3, 4; and the Ferorelli vase, Group B no. 13, Ibid. pl. 54. 5, 6.
10 There is hardly any thickening at the top on the carelessly painted stamnos-pyxis from Eretria (Ibid. pl. 57. 1), but this is exceptional.
11 Beschreibung der Vasensammlung im Antiquarium, Berlin 1034, no. 4086. Furtwängler regarded it as Boeotian.
12 In my possession. I am indebted to Miss Alison Frantz for the photograph here reproduced as also for Plate 70ƒ. H. to top of handles 17·5 cm., to top of knob 22 cm. Provenience unknown.
13 For a reserved band immediately above the foot on Euboean, vases see BICS viii (1961) 2Google Scholar; Hesperia xxxi (1962) 376 no. 20; BSA lviii (1963) 17, 18.
14 Inv. III. G. 6. Lid missing. H. to top of handles 8·6 cm.
15 Nat. Mus. 18661. Top of knob missing. H. to top of handles 25 cm.
16 See also Arch. Class. xi (1959) pl. 31, 4. Miss Pelagatti there regards the vase as Boeotian, ibid. 74 f.
17 Or, as SirBeazley, John calls them, ‘sprung and unsprung’, Etruscan Vase Painting 183.Google Scholar
18 H. 8·75 cm. without lid.
19 Inv. 191. D. 21 cm.
20 BICS viii (1961) 1 f., pl. 1. 1–4; Hesperia xxxi (1962) 376 f. (22), pl. 113.
21 ADelt xx (1965) 271, 287, pls. 333c, 338b.
22 Musée d'Art et d'Histoire H. 44. D. 15·2 cm.
23 Sixth 74; BSA xli. 26; CVA Reading i. 30 pl. 18. 11.
24 For Euboean vases at Rhitsona, see BSA lviii, 18.Google Scholar
25 Sixth 101.
26 See also ADelt xxi (1966) 215.
27 BSA lviii, pl. 4. 4–6.
28 D. 19·7 cm.
29 The lidded lekanis in Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, CVA i pl. 30.18, is not included here as there is no floral element in the decoration. It is rightly attributed to Euboea by Dr. Augusta Bruckner (ibid. 41).
