Phrynos

Phrynos lip cup in the Museo del vino Torgiano

Phrynos was a Greek potter, active in Athens, circa 560–545 BC.^[1] He is one of the Little masters. Three signed lip cups by him are known:

• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Inv. 03.855^[1][2]
• London, British Museum Inv. 1867.5-8.962 (B 424)^[2][3]
• Torgiano, Wine Museum Inv. A 15^[1]

The three cups appear to have been painted by the same painter, the Phrynos Painter, to whom some further pieces can be ascribed.^[2] The potter Phrynos probably worked together with the potters Archikles and Glaukytes, as some of their vases bear close similarities.

See also

• Little-Master cup

References

1. Heesen (2021).
2. Beazley (1978), p. 168.
3. Tonks (1905), p. 289.

Sources

• Tonks, Oliver S. (1905). "A New Kalos-Artist: Phrynos". American Journal of Archaeology. 9 (3): 288–293. doi:10.2307/497052. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 497052.
• Beazley, John Davidson (1978). Attic black-figure vase-painters. New York: Hacker Art Books. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-87817-191-0.
• Heesen, Pieter (2021). Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte; Tegethoff, Wolf (eds.). "Phrynos (1)". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon – Internationale Künstlerdatenbank – Online. Berlin, New York: K. G. Saur. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.
• John Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters, Oxford 1971, p. 70-71.
• Joan Tarlow Haldenstein: Little master cups. Studies in 6th century Attic black-figure vase painting, Dissertation University of Cincinnati, 1975, p. 20-32.
• Hermann A. G. Brijder: A band-cup by the Phrynos Painter in Amsterdam, in: M. Gnade (Hrsg.): Stips votiva. Papers presented to Conrad Michael Stibbe, Amsterdam 1991, p. 21-30.