Kantharos (Wine Cup)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

about 300 BCE

Attributed to the Kantharos Group
Greek; Apulia, Italy

On either side of this drinking cup is a head in sakkos (hat), facing to the left, and under each handle a palmette. The rim is decorated with ovolos.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Artist: Kantharos Group
Title: Kantharos (Wine Cup)
Place: Greece (Artist's nationality:)
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.: 300 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Dimensions: 16.8 × 14.6 × 9.8 cm (6 5/8 × 5 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1889.115
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Art Institute of Chicago. Preliminary Catalogue of Metal Work, Graeco-Italian Vases, and Antiquities, December 9, 1889 (Chicago: Early and Halla Printing Company, 1889), p. 44, no. 352.
Arthur Dale Trendall and Alexander Camitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), pp. 29, 913, pl. 390, 12.

Pio Marinangeli, Rome; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1889.

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