Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Interior, symposium (drinking party)
Exterior, women and youths
Compared with symposium scenes of the preceding generation of cup painters, this work presents a more complex viewpoint. The symposiast is seen from the back, and the attending woman is on the far side of the kline (couch). She holds a phiale (libation bowl).
Exterior, women and youths
Compared with symposium scenes of the preceding generation of cup painters, this work presents a more complex viewpoint. The symposiast is seen from the back, and the attending woman is on the far side of the kline (couch). She holds a phiale (libation bowl).
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
- Artist: Attributed to the Painter of Brussels R 330
- Period: Classical
- Date: mid-5th century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
- Dimensions: H. 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm); diameter 10 5/8 in. (27 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1919
- Object Number: 19.192.67
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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