The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Terracotta globular cup with two handles

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Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Terracotta globular cup with two handles

Period:: Archaic
Date:: last quarter of the 6th century B.C.
Culture:: Etruscan
Medium:: Terracotta; black-figure, Pontic ware
Dimensions:: H.: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)
Classification:: Vases
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 2009
Accession Number:: 2009.316

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 170

Description

The shape of the cup is derived from Etruscan bucchero models. The decoration shows influences from both East Greece and the Greek mainland. Most noteworthy is the phallos bird that was popular in Athenian vase-painting during the second half of the sixth century B.C.
Provenance

[From 1950s until 1963, with Herbert Cahn, Basel]; 1963, purchased by Jacques Schotte through Münzen und Medaillen, Basel; 1963-2007, collection of Jacques Schotte, Gent, Belgium; [until 2010, with Cahn International AG]; acquired in 2010, purchased from Cahn International AG through Bonhams, London.
References

Kunstwerke der Antike. 5 October 1963. Auktion 26 der Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, no. 162.

Hannestad, Lise. 1976. The followers of the Paris Painter. København: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, p. 76, no. 150.

Bonhams, London. 29 April 2009. Antiques, p. 92, lot 121.

Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 2008–2010. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 68 (2), Fall 2010: p. 8.
See also
What
Clay (23,649)

Vessels (21,921)

Vases (8,895)

Terracotta (8,373)

Drinking vessels (6,032)

Cups (3,861)
Where
Europe (148,586)

Italy (20,983)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,148)
In the Museum
Greek and Roman Art (17,329)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Italian Peninsula, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.