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Attic Red-Figure Cup Type A
Creator
PsiaxPainter
All works by this person →A vase-painter working in Athens in the late 500s B.C., Psiax is known from his signature on several surviving vases. A versatile painter, Psiax worked in every pottery technique in use at that time: black-figure, red-figure, white-ground, coral red, and Six's technique. He decorated the complete range of Greek vase shapes, both large and small, favoring Dionysiac scenes and the myths of Herakles.
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- about 520 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
On both on the interior and the exterior of this cup, the vase-painter depicted encounters between youths and men, and males and females. Produced soon after the invention of the red-figure technique, what makes this cup particularly unusual is that the painter employed a variety of other decorative techniques - incision, added-white and –red, and added-clay relief. Thus, the lyre on side A has arms and a cross-piece painted in added color (much of which has flaked off), incised strings, and a raised sound box added in clay (now chipped). The leftmost youth sits on a camp stool which the artist added in clay relief. It has white hinges and is topped by what was once a red cushion.
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