Foot from Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup) (c. 480 BCE): Art, History and Details

Foot from Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup) (c. 480 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Removed during an extensive conservation treatment in 1990, this foot was broken from a different kylix and used in an ancient repair. It likely once belonged to a differently proportioned cup than the one to which it was long attached, as seen by its thicker stem and smaller foot diameter.

Object facts

• Title: Foot from Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup)
• Date: c. 480 BCE
• Culture: Greece, Athens
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Diameter: 29.6 cm (11 5/8 in.)
• Collection: GR - Greek
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1915.718.a

A detail from the museum

Originally from a different kylix, this foot was used in an ancient repair.

Collection credit

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
• Lee, Sherman E. "A Cup by Douris." American Journal of Archaeology 58, no. 3 (1954): 230, pll. 41-42.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.