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METAL VASES
Boston oinochoe is, however, a fact of some interest in view of the probability
that the tongue-pattern vases are Corinthian. Here we must leave the ques-
tion: none of the evidence is conclusive, but this much at least can be said:
it points consistently to a Peloponnesian fabric which is not Argive, and which
we have several positive reasons for thinking Corinthian.
The other bronze vases from Corinth are few and unimportant. Professor
Beazley tells me there is a late sixth-century hydria in Copenhagen, a piece of
competent, but not outstanding workmanship; there are fifth-century (?)
stamnos-handles in the Louvre (de Ridder 2667-8),and there are handles from
an earlier hydria in Berlin, one of them shown in pi. 46, 3. These have been
studied by Neugebauer, who cites several almost identical examples—two sets
in Boston, A. Anz. 1926, 198 fig. 11 (bought in Athens); another, Coll. de
Clercq iii, pi. 57, of unknown provenance; a fourth in Vienna, R.M. 1923/4,
387 fig. 19. These are obviously products of the same workshop, and that,
according to Neugebauer, South Italian.1 The evidence of provenance is ad-
mittedly all against this view, and there is nothing specifically Italian about
the style. These handles are undoubtedly related to a group which may be
the products of a South Italian fabric, but the resemblance is not so close that
one must attribute them all to one centre.2 They are also related to another
group which can only be Peloponnesian—a group which consists of the vase
from Cumae, Mon. Ant. xxii, pi. 78 (A. Anz. pp. 187, 8), the handles from the
Peloponnese in Vienna (A. Anz. loc. cit.), and those which are now attached to
a curious vase from Trebenischte (Filow pi. 9 and figs. 55, 6).3 But these
again cannot be assigned with certainty to the same workshop as those from
Corinth. The difficulty is the one which is so often encountered in the study
of bronze vases: the evidence of resemblance depends primarily on motives,
which good workmen anywhere could reproduce, and not on style.
Unpublished. A not uncommon type, for which
de Ridder quotes parallels.
1 A. Anz. 1926, 198.
2 A. Anz. figs. 8, 9 from South Italy; Berlin,
Fiihrer pi. 26, from Randazzo, &c.; but even here
definite evidence of South Italian origin is lacking.
A certain conclusion can only be reached when the
human figures, like that of the Randazzo hydria,
have been properly published and placed in their
sculptural context.
3 The shape of the hydria is so peculiar that we
must assume that the handles were refitted, after the
vase to which they originally belonged was damaged
or destroyed. If the Trebenischte bronzes were re-
exported from a Corinthian colony such as Apollonia,
this might well have been done by provincial
workmen. The style of the horse-heads is purely
Peloponnesian: compare Filow's text-figures with
Corinthian horses like our fig. 18, c. The gorgoneion
is unusual, not because it is horned (cf. fig. 24, a),
but because of the curious oblong shape of the face,
and the straight mouth.
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METAL VASES
Boston oinochoe is, however, a fact of some interest in view of the probability
that the tongue-pattern vases are Corinthian. Here we must leave the ques-
tion: none of the evidence is conclusive, but this much at least can be said:
it points consistently to a Peloponnesian fabric which is not Argive, and which
we have several positive reasons for thinking Corinthian.
The other bronze vases from Corinth are few and unimportant. Professor
Beazley tells me there is a late sixth-century hydria in Copenhagen, a piece of
competent, but not outstanding workmanship; there are fifth-century (?)
stamnos-handles in the Louvre (de Ridder 2667-8),and there are handles from
an earlier hydria in Berlin, one of them shown in pi. 46, 3. These have been
studied by Neugebauer, who cites several almost identical examples—two sets
in Boston, A. Anz. 1926, 198 fig. 11 (bought in Athens); another, Coll. de
Clercq iii, pi. 57, of unknown provenance; a fourth in Vienna, R.M. 1923/4,
387 fig. 19. These are obviously products of the same workshop, and that,
according to Neugebauer, South Italian.1 The evidence of provenance is ad-
mittedly all against this view, and there is nothing specifically Italian about
the style. These handles are undoubtedly related to a group which may be
the products of a South Italian fabric, but the resemblance is not so close that
one must attribute them all to one centre.2 They are also related to another
group which can only be Peloponnesian—a group which consists of the vase
from Cumae, Mon. Ant. xxii, pi. 78 (A. Anz. pp. 187, 8), the handles from the
Peloponnese in Vienna (A. Anz. loc. cit.), and those which are now attached to
a curious vase from Trebenischte (Filow pi. 9 and figs. 55, 6).3 But these
again cannot be assigned with certainty to the same workshop as those from
Corinth. The difficulty is the one which is so often encountered in the study
of bronze vases: the evidence of resemblance depends primarily on motives,
which good workmen anywhere could reproduce, and not on style.
Unpublished. A not uncommon type, for which
de Ridder quotes parallels.
1 A. Anz. 1926, 198.
2 A. Anz. figs. 8, 9 from South Italy; Berlin,
Fiihrer pi. 26, from Randazzo, &c.; but even here
definite evidence of South Italian origin is lacking.
A certain conclusion can only be reached when the
human figures, like that of the Randazzo hydria,
have been properly published and placed in their
sculptural context.
3 The shape of the hydria is so peculiar that we
must assume that the handles were refitted, after the
vase to which they originally belonged was damaged
or destroyed. If the Trebenischte bronzes were re-
exported from a Corinthian colony such as Apollonia,
this might well have been done by provincial
workmen. The style of the horse-heads is purely
Peloponnesian: compare Filow's text-figures with
Corinthian horses like our fig. 18, c. The gorgoneion
is unusual, not because it is horned (cf. fig. 24, a),
but because of the curious oblong shape of the face,
and the straight mouth.
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