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Drinking cup (kylix)
Potter: The Xenokles Painter
Greek
Archaic Period
about 540 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure
Dimensions
13.8 cm (5 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III
Accession Number62.615
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
CVA Boston 2, pl. 093, 5; 094, 3-4.
DescriptionFragments of a lip-cup, signed by Tleson the son of Nearchos as Potter.
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Palmettes under surviving handle.
Interior: two reserved, concentric circles in center.
(Fell to pieces along old cracks on July 29, 1987)
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Palmettes under surviving handle.
Interior: two reserved, concentric circles in center.
(Fell to pieces along old cracks on July 29, 1987)
ProvenanceAccording to CVA Boston 2: from Vulci; by date unknown: Christoph Clairmont Collection; by 1962: gift of Christoph Clairmont to Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III to MFA,