Droop shell
Droop bowls (pronounced like English "drope") are a form of the Kleinmeister bowl , which dates from around 550 to 510 BC. Were produced, very isolated examples still existed in the 5th century BC. They are named after John Percival Droop , an English classical archaeologist who first examined them.
They have black, concave lips that are more clearly set off from the body than those of the Kleinmeister bowls. The feet are high-handled and have a clay-ground bulge at the upper end and a similar band underneath, which can be grooved; the edge of the base is covered in black. A wide black band is painted on the inside of the hollow foot. Inside the bowls, a strip is cut out deep below the lip and sometimes a central disk is left free.
The first bowls of this kind are around 550 BC. To apply. These very early examples are completely black, this unpainted form is also retained in the subsequent period. In early specimens, handle zones decorated with rows of buds were also possible. From around 540 BC The decoration changed so that the entire outer shell body below the lip and above the foot was decorated with decorative ribbons - palmettes , leaves, points, buds, rays or animal silhouettes. Figurative decorations are rare.
Details in the ornament in the period after 540 BC Chr. Corresponding bowls from Laconia are so similar that there must have been a connection here. It is probable that both regions used the same Eastern Greek models. Bowls to be added later were based on decorative forms adopted from Sparta . The latest painted bowls of this form are around 510 BC. BC, there were black-covered bowls even beyond that.
literature
- John Percival Droop : The dates of the vases called "Cyrenaic". In: Journal of Hellenic Studies . Volume 30, 1910, pp. 1-34.
- John Percival Droop: Droop Cups and the Dating of Laconian Pottery. In: Journal of Hellenic Studies. Volume 52, 1932, pp. 303-304.
- Percy N. Ure : Droop Cups. In: Journal of Hellenic Studies. Volume 52, 1932, pp. 55-71.
- Percy N. Ure: Droop Cups, Black and Figured. In: George E. Mylonas (Ed.): Studies presented to David M. Robinson. Volume 2. Washington University, St. Louis MO 1953, pp. 45-54.
- John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , pp. 68–69, figs. 126–128.
- Berthold Fellmann , in: Klaus Vierneisel , Bert Kaeser (Hrsg.): Art of the bowl - culture of drinking. Staatliche Antikensammlung, Munich 1990, pp. 23–24, 39–40.
Web links
- Search in Beazley Archive type CUP DROOP