Vases Red-figure Kylix Attic Red-Figure Stemless Kylix
Attic Red-Figure Stemless Kylix

Attic Red-Figure Stemless Kylix

Red-figure Q Painter · Kylix · about 380 B.C.
The vessel is reconstructed from fragments. The recurved handles are reserved on the inside. The interior is decorated with an impressed, encircled palmette surrounded by six more impressed palmettes and an outer impressed ring of horseshoes. The inside of the rim is decorated with an ivy vine and berries in added white with reserved leaves. Each side of the exterior has three figures: a central, seated female, looking over her shoulder to the left with her left hand raised as if holding a staff. She is flanked by two nude male figures. The right figure on both sides feces left with his left arm wrapped in drapery and the right extended at waist level. The left figure faces right with the right arm raised as if holding a staff. On one side this figure also leans with his left arm as if leaning on the shoulder of the seated woman. There are three palmettes in the handle zones: one under the handle and two flanking. The underside is decorated with black glaze rings.
Shape
Technique
Date
about 380 B.C.
Culture
Greek (Attic)
Painter
Attribution
Attributed
Dimensions
H: 9.30 cm W: 21.50 cm
Museum
J. Paul Getty Museum
Accession Number
79.AE.199
Image Source
getty_cc0
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)