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Drinking cup (kylix) with Apollo

Greek
Late Archaic Period
about 480 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens

Medium/Technique Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions Height: 8.4 cm (3 5/16 in.)
Diameter: 20.8 cm (8 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Julia Bradford Huntington James Fund and Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number10.197
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 026.
DescriptionIn interior, Apollo running to right, wearing chiton, himation and high boots (eudromides). In his left hand bow and arrow; in his right an arrow; behind him a sceptre.

Condition: It was restored without handles.
ProvenanceAbout May 1895, bought in Rome by Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), London [see note 1]; 1910, sold by Warren to the MFA for $4,000 [see note 2]. (Accession date: June 2, 1910)
NOTES:
[1] According to Warren’s records.
[2] This figure is the total price for MFA 10.159-10.230.