Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

Colmar Painter

490–480 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

Interior, feet and lower drapery of figure standing on a low podium; on exergue, Anacreontic lyre player with basket hanging from lyre; part of an inscription, [HO] PAIS [KALOS]; Exterior, wreathed youth wearing a himation, holding krotala in both hands, looking over his left shoulder; bearded male with himation, raising a drinking horn in his right hand; bearded man to right, holding a lyre in his left hand and a plektron in his right; lower and drapery of a male to right; wreathed youth holding krotala and sitting on the shoulders of a crouching, wreathed youth, who holds out a drinking cup in his left hand; filleted youth wearing a himation, holding a drinking horn in his right hand; draped youth to right, holding a staff in his right hand and a drinking horn in his left; wreathed youth wearing a himation, playing the aulos; wreathed youth with a himation, and krotala in both hands, looking over his right shoulder; right arm, protruding from himation, with hand holding krotala

Artist

Colmar Painter

Date

490–480 BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011