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Naukratis Painter
( fl c. 575–c. 550 BC). Greek vase painter. Together with the BOREADS PAINTER, he represents the ‘old generation’ in Lakonian Black-figure. His name vase, a cup from Naukratis, Egypt (London, BM, B 4), depicts a standing female figure holding a plant and surrounded by winged daemons. This has been interpreted as the nymph Kyrene but is more likely to be the vegetation deity Artemis Orthia. Such representations of single divine or daemonic figures, outside any narrative context, were favoured by the Naukratis Painter. Two cups attributed to him (Paris, Louvre, E 668; Taranto, Mus. N., IG 4988) show a seated Zeus with an eagle flying towards him, and a cup from Cerveteri (Mus. N. Cerite, 90287) depicts Poseidon Riding a Hippokampos. The interiors of other cups variously show a daemon (a sphinx, a Gorgon, a Boread, or Pegasos), and there are also some symposion scenes with winged daemons surrounding the diners (e.g. cup, Paris, Louvre, E667). The Naukratis Painter may have invented the characteristic high foot of the Lakonian cup, and he also worked on other shapes including lakainai, kraters and hydriai. He was a good draughtsman and produced fine decorative friezes and rich floral patterns. From Corinthian vase painting he borrowed such designs as the animal frieze, which he used on both small and larger vases.
Part of the Vase painters family
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