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Fragment from Red-Figure Cup: Woman

c. 470–460 BC

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near the Telephos Painter

(Greek, Attic, active 480–460 BC)

Greek, Attic

Ceramic

Overall: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.533.b

Find spot: Orvieto

Location

102B Greek

Fun Fact

Painted on the back side of this fragment is ORVIETO, its likely findspot more than a century ago.

Description

A bit of preserved lip shows that this fragment comes from a kylix, or drinking cup. A finely dressed woman, with earring and headband, reaches out with her right hand, now lost but once holding a wreath in added red paint. Relief lines standing above the surface outline the face, neck, arm, and other details.

Telephos Painter

Attic vase painter, active ca. 475-ca. 450 BCE

Provenance

1915

Through Harold Woodbury Parsons, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1915-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Beazley Archive. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive, n.d. BAPD 210158 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk

Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. p. 820, No. 4

Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 24, Plate 39,2

Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 293

Exhibition history

Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).