Kylix (Drinking Cup) (about 460 BCE): Artwork and History

Kylix (Drinking Cup) (about 460 BCE) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter Greek; Athens.

The work and its context

The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:

This is an example of the most popular type of wine cup, the kylix. Rising from a round foot and a thin stem, the cup flares out to a wide bowl with two handles on opposite sides. The interior of a kylix typically has a painted scene within a tondo, or circular frame, which would have been gradually revealed to the drinker as the wine was consumed. Here a youth stands before a woman.

Object facts

• Title: Kylix (Drinking Cup)
• Date: about 460 BCE
• Artist attribution: Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter Greek; Athens
• Place of origin: Ancient Greece
• Medium: terracotta, red-figure
• Dimensions: 14.2 × 45 × 37 cm (5 5/8 × 17 3/4 × 14 1/4 in.)
• Type: Vessel
• Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
• Reference number: 1889.27

Collection credit

Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson

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