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Wine Cup (Skyphos) with Ephebe and Woman Playing Tambourine

Wine Cup (Skyphos) with Ephebe and Woman Playing Tambourine

The Frignano Painter

On this drinking cup one side shows a woman with head in profile facing left, holding a tambourine. The other shows a youth (ephebe) facing left with white chaplet or garland. Two commas to mark the waist of the youth are a signature of the Frignano Painter.
Artist
The Frignano Painter
(Greek, active in Campania)
Title
Wine Cup (Skyphos) with Ephebe and Woman Playing Tambourine
Date
4th century B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with red-figure decoration
Dimensions
6 1/4 in. Overall
Credit
Transfer from University of Wisconsin Classics Department
Accession No.
70.18.13
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

likely by 1930, Grant Showerman (1870-1935) [of University of Wisconsin Classics Department] (Madison, WI); University of Wisconsin Classics Department (Madison, WI); 9 October 1970, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Trendall, A.D. and Alexander Cambitoglou. "The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, vol. 2 Late Apulian." (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. p. 667, no. 208
  • Emile Tari, "Some South Italian Vases in the Elvehjem Museum," M.A. thesis University of Wisconsin, 1975. pp. 41-46
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 69, no. 48

  • From the Head of Zeus: Davenport Art Gallery, 4/21/1985–12/30/1986

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