Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

410-400 BCE

Greek; Athens

During the course of the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, black vessels (commonly called black-glaze vessels) were made with increasing frequency in both Greece and South Italy. Many of them replicate the shape of metal vessels. Others have detailing that is molded or incised. While the quality of these vessels varies greatly, all would have been less expensive than vessels decorated in other contemporary techniques, for example, in red-figure.

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Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Greek
Title: Skyphos (Drinking Cup)
Place: Cales (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 410 BCE–400 BCE
Medium: terracotta, black-glaze with impressed decoration
Dimensions: 9.2 × 22.5 × 16.2 cm (3 5/8 × 8 7/8 × 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1889.14
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W.M.R. French, 1889-?. Notes [on a] journey to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Hutchinson starting from New York Sat’y, 1889-?, (unpublished manuscript in Art Institute of Chicago Archives), p. 26.
Art Institute of Chicago, Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early & Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 38, no. 304.
Homer A. Thompson, “Two Centuries of Hellenistic Pottery,” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 3, 4 (1934), p. 429.
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 18.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek,” Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012-present.

Augusto Mele, Naples, Italy; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago through J.C. Fletcher as agent, 1889; price reimbursed by Charles Hutchinson and Philip D. Armour, 1889.

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