Chelis

Chelis was a Greek potter who lived around 520 to 500 BC. Was active in Athens .

Five bowls of his signature are known, which were painted by at least four different painters: the Thalia painter , Oltos , the Chelis painter and the Euergides painter . Four of his signatures can be found on red-figure or bilingual drinking bowls . A signature can be found on a bowl decorated with black figures. Chelis and the Chelis Painter may be identical.

Works

Munich, State Collections of Antiquities 2589

red-figure bowl, Chelis painter

Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 81329

red-figure bowl, Chelis painter

Paris, Cabinet des Médailles 335

bilingual bowl, Thalia painter and Oltos

Paris, Cabinet des Médailles

Fragment of a black-figure bowl [1]

Paris, Louvre G 15

red-figure bowl, Euergides painter

literature

John D. Beazley : Attic Red-figure Vase-painters . 2nd Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963, p. 80.
Doris Vollkommer-Glökler: Chelis . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-11413-3 , pp. 136-137.

Web links

Chelis in the Beazley Archives

personal data
SURNAME	Chelis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek potter
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.