Kassel bowl
Kassel bowls , also Kassel bowls and the group of Kassel bowls are a special group of the Attic Kleinmeister bowls that were made in the decades 540-520 BC. Were made in Athens.
The Kassel bowls are quite close to the ribbon bowls , but are flatter and usually relatively small. Unlike the band bowls, the rim and the outer pelvic floor are also decorated. The lip and body of the bowls are usually decorated with simple ribbon patterns. Generally these are tongues on the lip and rays on the rest of the body. Some painters draw silhouette-like figures in the handle zone, but overall figurative pictures are the exception. Above all, the decorations suggest a connection to the Siana bowls . The frieze structure, decorative elements and the absence of incisions, which is unusual for the black-figure style, speak for a connection between Attic and Ionic vase painting.
The Kassel bowls were named after the former location of a bowl fragment found in Samos during excavations led by Johannes Boehlau in 1898 , which was kept in the Kassel Antikensammlung Kassel until it was destroyed during a fire in the museum cellar during the Second World War .
literature
- 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 , p. 69.
- Berthold Fellmann in: Klaus Vierneisel (Hrsg.): Art of the bowl - culture of drinking. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich 1990, pp. 23, 38.
