Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Palmette Eye-cups

ca. 510 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Interior, seated youth holding fruit (quinces?) Exterior, obverse, flute girl peering into amphora (jar) Reverse, flute girl holding cup of special shape The decoration of vases used in symposia (drinking party) draws liberally on the erotic aspects of these events. The flute girl on the obverse investigates a pointed amphora; her flute case dangles rather provocatively from one leg. Her counterpart on the other side raises a particularly unusual type of kylix.

Artist

Palmette Eye-cups

Date

ca. 510 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Fletcher Fund, 1956