Art Institute of Chicago

Kylix (Drinking Cup)

Attributed to the Workshop of the "Bird-frieze Painter"LinkedCulture matchlcp-261c95711ae7

Date: 560-550 BCE
Medium: terracotta, black-figure
Culture: Corinth
Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 71070

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This handle area of this drinking cup is decorated, on both sides, with a bird with its head turned back (red dots on the neck), which is flanked by griffin-birds with raised wings (red necks). There is no decoration below the animal frieze. There is no decoration inside.

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Credit line: Gift of Dr. Alfred Emerson
Provenance: Alfred Emerson (1859-1943), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1914.

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Object type: AAT300193015

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