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Siana cup (kylix)
Greek
Archaic Period
about 540 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure
Dimensions
Height: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Frederick Brown Fund
Accession Number1970.68
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
CVA Boston 2, pl. 086.
DescriptionInterior: Two nude, bearded wrestlers. Tongue border.
Exterior: Four nude youths holding spears in right hand, ride to left. Eagle flies to left in field behind last horseman.
Condition: Largely overpainted and restored.
Exterior: Four nude youths holding spears in right hand, ride to left. Eagle flies to left in field behind last horseman.
Condition: Largely overpainted and restored.
ProvenanceMay 3, 1966, anonymous ("property of a gentleman") sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, lot 143, sold for 110 gn. to "Forbes." 1967, D. J. Crowther, Ltd., London [see note 1]; 1967, sold by Crowther to Charles S. Lipson, Mayflower Coin Auctions, Boston; between 1967 and 1969, sold by Lipson to George Warton, San Francisco [see note 2]; 1970, sold by George Warton to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 11, 1970)
NOTES:
[1] D. J. Crowther, Ltd., Coins of the World, no. 1 (1967), cat. no. 10. [2] First lent to the MFA May 2, 1969.
NOTES:
[1] D. J. Crowther, Ltd., Coins of the World, no. 1 (1967), cat. no. 10. [2] First lent to the MFA May 2, 1969.