Mug (about 460 BCE): Artwork and History
Mug at the Art Institute of Chicago: date, artist attribution, materials and the museum's explanation of the work.
Mug (about 460 BCE) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Greek; Athens.
The work and its context
The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:
During the course of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., black vessels (commonly called black-glaze vessels) were made with increasing frequency in both Greece and South Italy. Many of them replicate the shape of metal vessels. Others have detailing that is molded or incised. While the quality of these vessels varies greatly, all would have been less expensive than vessels decorated in other contemporary techniques, for example, in red-figure.
Object facts
- Title: Mug
- Date: about 460 BCE
- Artist attribution: Greek; Athens
- Place of origin: Greece
- Medium: terracotta, black-glaze
- Dimensions: 9.2 × 11.7 × 10.2 cm (3 5/8 × 4 5/8 × 4 in.)
- Type: Vessel
- Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Reference number: 1889.31
Collection credit
Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson
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