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Drinking cup (kylix) with youth playing a double flute

Greek
Late Archaic Period
about 490–480 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens

Medium/Technique Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions Length: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Julia Bradford Huntington James Fund and Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number10.202
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 024.
DescriptionA youth in a himation, to right, leaning on a stick and playing the double flute.
ProvenanceBy 1910: with E. P. Warren; purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, June 2, 1910, for $4,000.00 (this figure is the total price for MFA 10.159-10.230)