Art Institute of Chicago
Kylix (Drinking Cup)
Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter
- Date
- about 460 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta, red-figure
- Culture
- Ancient Greece
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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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- Object type
- AAT300193015
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