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.
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Title:Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
Artist:Attributed to the Ashby Painter
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 500 BCE
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
Object Number:1993.11.5
From Vulci (Camposcala), Italy (Wernicke 1885, p. 256; Beazley 1929, p. 18, no. 26)
After 1828, excavated in Vulci (Camposcala); [with Candelori, Campanari and Fossati, Italy]; [with Baseggio, Rome]; before 1841, purchased from Baseggio by Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, the 2nd Marquess of Northampton, England; until 1980, collection of the 2nd Marquess of Northampton and family, Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, England; [1980, purchased by Bruce McAlpine through Christie’s, London]; [1980-1993, with Bruce McAlpine, McAlpine Ancient Art Ltd, London]; acquired in 1993, purchased from Bruce McAlpine.
Wernicke, K. 1885. Archäologische Zeitung, 43: pp. 256ff., pl. 17.
Beazley, John D. 1925. Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils. p. 54, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr.
Beazley, John D. 1929. "Notes on the Vases in Castle Ashby." Papers of the British School at Rome, 11: no. 26, pp. 18–9, pl. 7, 1-3.
Philippart, Hubert. 1935. "Ceramique Grecque en Angleterre." L'Antiquité Classique, 4: p. 213.
Haspels, Caroline Henriette Emilie. 1936. Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi. no. 3, pp. 104ff, Paris: E. de Boccard.
Beazley, John D. 1942. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters. p. 299, no. 6
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Beazley, John D. 1963[1942]. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. no. 8, p. 455, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Boardman, John. 1979. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain. Castle Ashby, Northampton. Fascicule 15. pl. 36, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Christie's, London. 1980. Fine Antiquities. July 2, 1980. lot 46.
Picón, Carlos A., Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth J. Milleker, and Patricia Gilkison. 1994. "Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 1993–1994." Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 52(2): p. 12.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1994. "One Hundred Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1993 through June 30, 1994." Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 124: p. 35.
Bundrick, Sheramy. 2005. Music and Image in Fifth-century Athens. fig. 28, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mertens, Joan R. 2010. How to Read Greek Vases. pp. 10–1, 86, fig. 1, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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