Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Attributed to the Ashby Painter 

Period:
Archaic
Date:
ca. 500 B.C.
Culture:
Greek, Attic
Medium:
Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 16 in. (12.7 x 40.6cm) diameter 12 7/8in. (32.7cm)
Classification:
Vases
Credit Line:
Purchase, Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Gift and The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 1993
Accession Number:
1993.11.5
  • Description

    Interior, warrior testing his trumpet
    Exterior, obverse and reverse, symposium (drinking party)

    The conceit of a drinker looking over a cup is preserved on two major vases by Euphronios and may be considered his invention. Contemporary artists like the
    Ashby Painter adopted it. Here, the youth holds the flutes for a flute player as she binds her hair. On the other side, a youth holds a drinking cup and a drinking horn while the flute player performs.

  • Provenance

    From Vulci

  • References

    Wernicke, K. 1885. Archäologische Zeitung 43: 256ff, pl. 17.

    Beazley, John D. 1925. Attische Vasenmaler des Rotfigurigen Stils. Tübingen, p. 54.

    Beazley, John D. 1929. "Notes on the Vases in Castle Ashby." Papers of the British School at Rome 11: 18-19 no. 26 and pl. 7 nos. 1-3.

    Philippart, H. 1935. "Ceramique Grecque en Angleterre." L'Antiquité Classique 4: 213.
    Haspels, C.H.E. 1936. Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi. Paris: E. de Boccard, pp. 104ff, no. 3.

    Beazley, John D. 1942. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 299 no. 6.

    Beazley, John D. 1963. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 455 no. 8.

    Boardman, John. 1979. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Castle Ashby, Northampton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pl. 36.

    Christie's, London, Sale Catalogue, 2 July 1980, lot 46.

    Mertens, Joan R. 1994. "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1993-1994." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 52(2): p. 12.

    Bundrick, S. D. 2005. Music and Image in Fifth-century Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, fig. 28.

    Mertens, Joan R. 2010. How to Read Greek Vases. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 10-11, 86, fig. 1.

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