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Wine Cup (Siana Cup) with Rooster

Wine Cup (Siana Cup) with Rooster

The Red/Black Painter (attributed to)

This form is called a Siana cup for the site on Rhodes where it was first bound. In the interior a rooster faces right. On the exterior on both sides a siren with outspread wings faces right.
Artist
The Red/Black Painter (attributed to)
(Greek, Attic)
Title
Wine Cup (Siana Cup) with Rooster
Date
ca. 555 B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with black-figure decoration
Dimensions
4 1/8 x 11 1/4 in. overall
Credit
Art Collections Fund, Lynn Ashley Fund, and Ottilia Buerger Fund purchase
Accession No.
1983.7
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

By 1964, Galerie Heidi Vollmeller (Zurich, Switzerland); 1964, sold by Galerie Heidi Vollmeller (Zurich, Switzerland) to Muriel Clifton (Beloit, WI); 1983, sold to Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • 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. figs. 1-2
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 43, no. 24
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Bulletin/Annual Report 1989-1991." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1991. p. 6, no. 1
  • Classical Art Research Centre. University of Oxford. "Beazley Archive Pottery Database.": https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/15C4DFC7-A331-40D0-A229-45EA534D7F1D. no. 24495

  • Director's Legacy, A: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/7/1983–11/20/1983

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