Stemmed Kyathos (Drinking Cup)

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

550-525 BCE

Etruscan; probably Vulci

A unique legacy of the Etruscans is the glossy black pottery known as Bucchero ware, made from the 7th century to the late 5th century B.C. Produced for both domestic and funerary uses, Bucchero ware was popular locally and imported across the Mediterranean. The signature shiny black surface was achieved by firing the pottery in a reduced-oxygen kiln, where restricted ventilation caused the iron oxide in the coarse Tuscan clay to turn black. Before firing, the clay was burnished, or polished with a smooth stone, resulting in the sheen so sought after by potters. This sheen mimicked the gleam of bronze vessels.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Etruscan
Title: Stemmed Kyathos (Drinking Cup)
Place: Vulci (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.: 550 BCE–525 BCE
Medium: terracotta, bucchero ware
Dimensions: 42 × 27 × 25.2 cm (16 5/8 × 10 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Edward H. Weiss
Reference Number: 1980.620
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Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 1980-81 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1981), p. 49 (ill.).
Richard De Puma, “Etruscan Art” in Museum Studies: Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago 20, no. 1 (1994), pp. 59-60 (ill.), no. 39.

Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 156, April 20, 1994-February 6, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152, November 11, 2012-September 8, 2017.

Edward H. Weiss (1901-1984), Chicago, by 1980; given to the Art Institute, 1980.

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