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Fragment from Red-Figure Cup: Woman

Fragment from Red-Figure Cup: Woman

c. 470–460 BCE
(Greek, Attic, active 480–460 BC)
Greek, Attic
ceramic
Overall: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.533.b
Location: 102B Greek

Did You Know?

Painted on the back side of this fragment is ORVIETO, its likely findspot more than a century ago.

Description

A bit of preserved lip shows that this fragment comes from a kylix, or drinking cup. A finely dressed woman, with earring and headband, reaches out with her right hand, now lost but once holding a wreath in added red paint. Relief lines standing above the surface outline the face, neck, arm, and other details.
  • 1915
    Through Harold Woodbury Parsons, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1915-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Beazley Archive. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive, n.d. BAPD 210158 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. p. 820, No. 4
    Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 24, Plate 39,2 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 293
  • Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
  • {{cite web|title=Fragment from Red-Figure Cup: Woman|url=false|author=Telephos Painter|year=c. 470–460 BCE|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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