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Drinking cup (kylix) with youth playing a double flute

Drinking cup (kylix) with youth playing a double flute

the Brygos Painter

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

CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome

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)