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Wine Cup (Komast Cup) with Dancers

Wine Cup (Komast Cup) with Dancers

The KY Painter (attributed to)

Padded dancers called komasts decorate this wine cup.
Artist
The KY Painter (attributed to)
(Greek, Attic, active ca. 585-570 B.C.E.)
Title
Wine Cup (Komast Cup) with Dancers
Date
ca. 580-570 B.C.E.
Period
Hellenistic period
Medium
Earthenware with black-figure decoration
Dimensions
with handles: 3 15/16 x 10 5/8 i overall
Credit
Anonymous Fund and Humanistic Foundation Fund purchase
Accession No.
1979.310
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

By February 1979, with Kurt Deppert [of Kunstwerke der Antike Antiquitaten] (Frankfurt, Germany); 26 March 1979, sold to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 41, no. 22
  • Moon, Warren G, and Louise Berge. "Greek Vase-painting In Midwestern Collections." Chicago: The Art Institute, 1979. p. 39

  • Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections: The Art Institute of Chicago, 12/22/1979–2/24/1980

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