Attic Red-Figure Stemless Cup Fragment

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Attic Red-Figure Stemless Cup Fragment

Creator

Douris

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One of the most prolific vase-painters known, Douris worked as a vase-painter and occasionally as a potter in Athens in the early 400s B.C. He is known from almost forty signed vases, two of which he also potted. Altogether, almost three hundred vases have been attributed to him. Given that scholars estimate a less than 0.5% survival rate for Greek vases, Douris may have decorated about 78,000 vas

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Date
about 460–450 B.C.
Medium
Terracotta
Culture
Greek (Attic)
Department
Vessels
Institution
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Two joined rim fragments. Exterior: girl wearing a headdress (turban) and holding a barbiton (lyre, associated with Anakreon) to right. She faces a man dressed in women’s clothes (headdress, chiton, himation). In front of him appears to be the top of a crutch.

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