Kylix (Drinking Cup)

about 480 BCE

Attributed to the Manner of Douris (painter)
Greek; Athens

This small, delicate drinking cup is undecorated except for the interior, depicting Artemis, goddess of the hunt, within the tondo, or circular field. A quiver on her back, she holds a bow and two arrows in her left hand, and in her right hand she extends a torch. An inscription added in dark red that runs from in front of her to behind her head states that one Hippodamas is handsome.

Status: On View, Gallery 152
Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

Artist: Style of Douris (Painter)
Title: Kylix (Drinking Cup)
Place: Athens (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.: 480 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Inscriptions: Hippodamas Kalos "Hippodamas is handsome."
Dimensions: 7.3 × 27 × 20.2 cm (2 7/8 × 10 5/8 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
Reference Number: 1907.323
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Wilhelm Fröhner, Collection van Branteghem: Vases peints et terre cuites antiques (Paris, 1892), no. 69, pl. 20.
Paul Hartwig, Die griechischen Meisterschalen der Blüthzeit des strengen rotfigurigen Stiles (Stuttgart, Spemann, 1893), pp. 601-5, pl. 67, 2.
Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27 (January, 1933) 17, fig. on p. 19.
John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters, volume II (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1963), p. 450, no. 23.
Max Wegner, Duris (Universität Münster thesis; 1968), p. 84.
John Griffiths Pedley, Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 20, no. 1 (1994), pp. 42, 44 (ill.).
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), pp. 22, 38.
Stefan Schmidt and Matthias Steinhart (eds.), Sammeln und Erforschen, Griechische Vasen in neuzeitlichen Sammlungen, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, VI (Munich, 2014), p. 117, fig. 4 (drawing).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - July 2009 and October 2009 - February 6, 2012.
A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today
July 11 – September 20, 2009. Regenstein Hall, The Art Institute of Chicago
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 - Jan. 31, 2023.

Said to be found in Greece [according to Fröhner 1892]. Alphonse van Branteghem, Brussels, by 1890; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 30-June 1, 1892, lot 69, to Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1907.

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