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Drinking cup (kylix)
Workshop of: Sotades
Greek
Classical Period
about 460–450 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, white ground and coral red
Dimensions
Height: 6.1 cm (2 3/8 in.); diameter 14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number13.4503
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionThe exterior of this cup is painted in coral-red, and the interior is done in white ground. The cup was undecorated in antiquity, but on the interior there are remains of a nineteenth-century drawing, now partly removed.
Coral red is what the rare shiny red gloss on the exterior of the cup is called. The occurrence of the gloss is very significant.
Coral red is what the rare shiny red gloss on the exterior of the cup is called. The occurrence of the gloss is very significant.
ProvenanceBy 1897: Count Michel Tyszkiewicz Collection; by date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; gift from Edward Perry Warren to MFA, January 2, 1913