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Drinking cup (kylix) with Eros riding a horse
Greek
Late Classical Period
about 400 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 9.4 x 21 cm (3 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Other (Width with handles): 29 cm (11 7/16 in.)
Other (Width with handles): 29 cm (11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.819
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 174.
DescriptionHeavy shape, off-set lip. Designs in interior only: on lip, ivy wreath; in center, within border of meanders and checkered squares. Eros riding a horse to right.
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: The following objects [MFA 03.805-03.833, 03.836-03.837, 03.906] were found in one cemetery in Campania.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24, 1903