Terracotta kylix: band-cup (drinking cup)
Obverse and reverse, frontal quadriga between youths and inscription: Hischylos made [me]
The band-cup was produced concurrently with the lip-cup; the two shapes are often designated Little-Master cups owing to their small scale. The later band-cups often have more ambitious compositions than occur on lip-cups. The subject here is a quadriga, a four-horse chariot, seen from the front. Artistically, the perspective advances beyond the profile horsemen favored by Lydos.
The band-cup was produced concurrently with the lip-cup; the two shapes are often designated Little-Master cups owing to their small scale. The later band-cups often have more ambitious compositions than occur on lip-cups. The subject here is a quadriga, a four-horse chariot, seen from the front. Artistically, the perspective advances beyond the profile horsemen favored by Lydos.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta kylix: band-cup (drinking cup)
- Artist: Signed by Hischylos as potter
- Period: Archaic
- Date: ca. 550–540 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Dimensions: H. 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1929
- Object Number: 29.131.6
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Hischylos
530–510 BCE
Hieron
Makron
ca. 480 BCE
Greek, South Italian, Campanian
4th century BCE
Greek, Attic
late 10th–early 9th century BCE
Greek, Attic
mid-4th century BCE
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