Phrynos was a Greek potter, active in
Athens
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, ''circa'' 560–545 BC. He is one of the
Little masters
The Little Masters ("Kleinmeister" in German language, German), were a group of German printmakers who worked in the first half of the 16th century, primarily in engraving. They specialized in very small finely detailed old master print, prints, s ...
. Three signed
lip cup
Lip cups are a type of ancient Greek Attica, Attic Little-Master cup, Little-master cups.
Lip cups were produced from the middle of the sixth century BC in Athens. They resemble Gordion cup, Gordion cups, but their lips or rims were more clearly d ...
s by him are known:
*Boston,
Museum of Fine Arts Inv. 03.855
*London,
British Museum
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Inv. 1867.5-8.962 (B 424)
*Torgiano,
Wine Museum Inv. A 15
The three cups appear to have been painted by the same painter, the
Phrynos Painter, to whom some further pieces can be ascribed. 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
Little-Master cups are a type of Attica, Attic Black-figure pottery, black-figure cups, produced around the middle and third quarter of the sixth century BC. Their name is based on their fine small-format decoration.
Little-Master cups are later ...
Bibliography
*Oliver S. Tonks: ''A New Kalos-Artist: Phrynos '', in: American Journal of Archaeology 9, 1905, p. 288-293.
*
John Beazley
Sir John Davidson Beazley (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was professor of classical archaeology and art at the U ...
: ''Attic Black-figure Vase-painters'', Oxford 1956, p. 168.
*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.
*Peter Heesen: ''Phrynos (I)'', in: Künstlerlexikon der Antike Bd. 2, 2004, p. 256.
Ancient Greek potters
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