Charinos

Jug in the shape of a richly decorated woman's head. Signed by Charinos. Around 490 BC Found in Vulci . Berlin, Antikensammlung F 2190

Charinos ( Greek  Χαρϊνος ) was a family from 520 to 500 BC. Active Attic potter . He was the creator of high-quality modeled jugs in the shape of a head , eight of which have been signed. These vessels are also referred to as class C or Charinos-class of head vessels. In addition, a white-ground oinochoe signed by him is known. To paint his vessels, he worked with the so-called Triptolemos painter , among others .

Works

• Basel, Herbert A. Cahn Collection

Fragment of a jug in the shape of a woman's head HC 732

• Berlin, Collection of Antiquities

Jug in the shape of a woman's head F 2190

• London, British Museum

white-ground oinochoe B 631 (1851.4-16.8)

• Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

Handle fragment of a jug in the shape of a woman's head 1966.981

• Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale

Jug in the shape of a woman's head (fragment)

• Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Fragmented jug in the shape of a ram's head 79.100 (Triptolemus painter)

• Rome, Villa Giulia

Fragments of a jug in the shape of a negro's head

• St. Petersburg, Hermitage

Jug in the shape of a woman's head ГР-7031

• Tarquinia, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

Jug in the shape of a woman's head RC 6845.

literature

• John D. Beazley : Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956, p. 423.
• John D. Beazley: Attic Red-figure Vase-painters . 2nd Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963, pp. 1531-1532.
• John D. Beazley: Paralipomena . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, p. 502.
• Doris Vollkommer-Glökler: Charinos (I). In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , p. 134.

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