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Wine Cup (Kylix) with Spear-bearers

Wine Cup (Kylix) with Spear-bearers

Painter of the Nicosia Olpe (FP Class)

This wine cup is decorated on both sides with four nude, beardless youths with spears and a central bearded male leaning on a spear. It probably represents young athletes with their trainer.
Artist
Painter of the Nicosia Olpe (FP Class)
(Greek, Attic, active ca. 530-505 B.C.E.)
Title
Wine Cup (Kylix) with Spear-bearers
Date
ca. 530-510 B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with black-figure decoration
Dimensions
4 9/16 x 12 3/16 in. overall
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Frank
Accession No.
1981.133
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

10 October 1974, sold at Robert J. Myers (New York, NY) auction #8 "Ancient Art" (lot 103) to an unknown bidder bidding for Arthur J. and Edith Fairchild Frank (Hartland, WI); October 1974, put on long-term loan by Arthur J. and Edith Fairchild Frank at the Elvehjem Art Center; 1981, gifted by Arthur J. and Edith Fairchild Frank to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. [Last researched by Chazen staff 4 February 2022]

  • Haldenstein, J. T. "Four Attic Black-figure Cups at the Elvehjem." Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin, 1989-1991. Elvehjem Museum of Art (1991): 6-12. pp. 6-12, no. 9
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 48, no. 29
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Bulletin/Annual Report 1989-1991." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1991. p. 10, no. 7

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