Kachrylion
Late 6th/early 5th-century Greek red-figure potter
Kachrylion was a potter of Greek red-figure pottery at the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 5th century BC. At his pottery had worked some of the most important Attic-Greek vase painters of these times, such as Euphronios and Oltos. He signed 29 kylixes and one plate.
References
Martin Robertson. The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press, 1992
Literature
John Beazley: Attic Red-figure Vase-painters 2nd ed. Oxford 1963, S. 107-109.
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