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Detail: Side B, exterior
Drinking cup (kylix) with symposium and komos scenes
Greek
Classical Period
about 450 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Overall: 12.3cm (4 13/16in.)
Other (H): 30.5cm (12in.)
Other (H): 30.5cm (12in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8078
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 045.
DescriptionInterior: Man with kylix, youth with oinochoe.
Exterior side A: Youth with oinochoe; man with kylix; another youth and a man.
Exterior side B: Youth with lyre, man dancing, man with skyphos, youth, man.
Injured by breaks. Base does not belong.
[Label text]:
Painted on this kylix is a typical symposium scene. Young and older men alike dance to music played on a lyre. Some men hold drinking cups and a youth with an oinochoe stands by a krater, ready to supply his fellow revelers with more wine. On the interior of the cup are a man with a kylix and a youth with an oinochoe.
Exterior side A: Youth with oinochoe; man with kylix; another youth and a man.
Exterior side B: Youth with lyre, man dancing, man with skyphos, youth, man.
Injured by breaks. Base does not belong.
[Label text]:
Painted on this kylix is a typical symposium scene. Young and older men alike dance to music played on a lyre. Some men hold drinking cups and a youth with an oinochoe stands by a krater, ready to supply his fellow revelers with more wine. On the interior of the cup are a man with a kylix and a youth with an oinochoe.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with E. P. Warren (According to Warren's records: Bought by a friend in S. Maria di Capua.); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901