Kylix (Drinking Cup)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

about 460 BCE

Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter
Greek; Athens

This is an example of the most popular type of wine cup, the kylix. Rising from a round foot and a thin stem, the cup flares out to a wide bowl with two handles on opposite sides. The interior of a kylix typically has a painted scene within a tondo, or circular frame, which would have been gradually revealed to the drinker as the wine was consumed. Here a youth stands before a woman.

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Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Artist: Penthesilea Painter
Title: Kylix (Drinking Cup)
Place: Ancient Greece (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.: Potted 460 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Dimensions: 14.2 × 45 × 37 cm (5 5/8 × 17 3/4 × 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1889.27
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William M.R. French, Notes [on a] journey to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Hutchinson starting from New York Sat’y Mch. 9, 1889- , (unpublished manuscript, Art Institute of Chicago Archives), p. 25.
Daniel C. Rich, “Five Red-Figured Vases in the Art Institute of Chicago,” American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 34 (1930), pp. 153-158, fig. 1-3.
J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase Painters, 2nd edition, book VII (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968), p. 884, no. 77 [47].
Louise Clark, “Notes on Small Textile Frames Pictured on Greek Vases,” American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983), p. 95, pl. 15, fig. 6.
I.D. Jenkins and D. Williams, “Sprang Hair Nets: Their Manufacture and Use in Ancient Greece”, AJA 89 (1985), p. 417 no. 9.
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, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
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.

Said to be found in Cerveteri, 1878 [Old Register at the Art Institute of Chicago]. 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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