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Drinking cup (skyphos)
Style of: Pavia Painter
Greek, South Italian
Late Classical Period
340–330 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Italy, Apulia
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 9.1 cm (3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Horace L. Mayer
Accession Number58.1304
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Vase-Painting in Italy (MFA), no. 059.
DescriptionMastoid Skyphos
A. A woman is seated to the left on two yellow-streaked rocks, holding a yellow box or basket in her right hand. She wears shoes, necklace, earrings, bracelets, and radiate stephane, all yellow, as well as a kekryphalos and chiton.
B: A head of a woman wearing a necklace, earring, radiate stephane, and embroidered sakkos faces to the left. The jewelry is yellow, and the stripes of the sakkos are alternately yellow and white.
There are palmettes under the handles and palmette-scrolls flanking both pictures. The upper frames consist of dotted egg-pattern. A wave-pattern circles the lower body below a pair of stripes. There are crude tongues around the inner and outer rim. The reserved band below the rim is colored with a red wash.
(text from Vase-Painting In Italy, catalogue entry no. 59)
A. A woman is seated to the left on two yellow-streaked rocks, holding a yellow box or basket in her right hand. She wears shoes, necklace, earrings, bracelets, and radiate stephane, all yellow, as well as a kekryphalos and chiton.
B: A head of a woman wearing a necklace, earring, radiate stephane, and embroidered sakkos faces to the left. The jewelry is yellow, and the stripes of the sakkos are alternately yellow and white.
There are palmettes under the handles and palmette-scrolls flanking both pictures. The upper frames consist of dotted egg-pattern. A wave-pattern circles the lower body below a pair of stripes. There are crude tongues around the inner and outer rim. The reserved band below the rim is colored with a red wash.
(text from Vase-Painting In Italy, catalogue entry no. 59)
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Horace L. Mayer Collection; November 13, 1958: loaned to MFA by Horace L. Mayer (as 127.58); gift of Horace L. Mayer to MFA, December 11, 1958