Fragment from Red-Figure Cup: Woman (c. 470–460 BCE): Art, History and Details

Fragment from Red-Figure Cup: Woman (c. 470–460 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Telephos Painter (Greek, Attic, active 480–460 BC).

The work and its context

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

A bit of preserved lip shows that this fragment comes from a kylix, or drinking cup. A finely dressed woman, with earring and headband, reaches out with her right hand, now lost but once holding a wreath in added red paint. Relief lines standing above the surface outline the face, neck, arm, and other details.

Object facts

• Title: Fragment from Red-Figure Cup: Woman
• Date: c. 470–460 BCE
• Creator attribution: Telephos Painter (Greek, Attic, active 480–460 BC)
• Culture: Greek, Attic
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Overall: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.)
• Collection: GR - Greek
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1915.533.b

A detail from the museum

Painted on the back side of this fragment is ORVIETO, its likely findspot more than a century ago.

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive, n.d.
• Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
• Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.

View the collection record

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