Kylix (Drinking Cup) by Penthesilea Painter
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Kylix (Drinking Cup)

Penthesilea Painter · about 460 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Said to be found in Cerveteri, 1878 [Old Register at the Art Institute of Chicago]. Augusto Mele, Naples, Italy; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago through J.C. Fletcher as agent, 1889; price reimbursed by Charles Hutchinson and Philip D. Armour, 1889.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012 - present.

Literature

Published references

  • William M.R. French, Notes [on a] journey to Europe with Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Hutchinson starting from New York Sat'y Mch. 9, 1889- , (unpublished manuscript, Art Institute of Chicago Archives), p. 25.
  • Daniel C. Rich, "Five Red-Figured Vases in the Art Institute of Chicago," American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 34 (1930), pp. 153-158, fig. 1-3.
  • J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase Painters, 2nd edition, book VII (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968), p. 884, no. 77 [47].
  • Louise Clark, "Notes on Small Textile Frames Pictured on Greek Vases," American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983), p. 95, pl. 15, fig. 6.
  • I.D. Jenkins and D. Williams, “Sprang Hair Nets: Their Manufacture and Use in Ancient Greece”, AJA 89 (1985), p. 417 no. 9.
  • Karen B. Alexander, "From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 18.

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