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Nearchos
( fl c. 560–c. 550 BC). Greek vase painter and potter. His signature appears on seven Attic Black-figure pots and one clay plaque, once as potter and painter, otherwise, as far as preserved, only as potter. His significance as a potter is hard to assess because of the fragmentary state of his vases. His four early lip cups have exceptionally thin sides, while his two signed kantharoi dedicated on the Acropolis were unusually large (estimated h. 500 mm; Athens, N. Archaeol. Mus., Acropolis 611, 612). Five of Nearchos’ signed works were painted by him, while the remaining three cups bear so little painting that this cannot be attributed. Finally, fragments of a further kantharos have been ascribed to Nearchos on stylistic grounds.
Part of the Vase painters family
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- Nearchos
- Greece, ancient, §V, 1(iv): Potters, painters and society
- Greece, ancient, §V, 1(vi)(f): Pottery inscriptions: Scripts
- Greece, ancient, §V, 5(ii)(b): Black-figure pottery: Attic, c 600–c 560 BC
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