Skyphos (drinking cup); Center: Double Palmette with Cocks on Either Side

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Skyphos (drinking cup); Center: Double Palmette with Cocks on Either Side

Place of OriginGreece, made in Attica

Date540 BCE

DimensionsH: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm); Diam (lip): 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm); Diam (with handles): 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); Diam (foot): 4 11/32 in. (11 cm)

MediumBlack Figure; Wheel-thrown, slip-decorated earthenware with incised details

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1969.368

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Published ReferencesMünzen and Medaillen A.G. Auktion 40. Kusntwerke der Antike. 13 Dezember 1969. Basel, p. 37, lot no. 65.

Luckner, Kurt T., "Greek Vases: Shapes and Uses," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 15, no. 3, 1972, p. 78.

Archaeologischer Anzeiger, 1935, col. 468, no. 37, and fig. 49, cols. 471-472.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus vasorum antiquorum: Toledo Museum of Art, U.S.A. Fasc. 17, Toledo, 1976, p. 22, repr. pl. 31, profile drawing fig. 4.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Ure, P.N., (ed.), Sixth and Fifth Century Pottery from Rhitsona, London, 1927, p. 58 (the shape of the Toledo skyphos most closely resembles type "A 1").

cf. Bernhard, Maria Ludwika, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Warsaw, fasc. 1; Poland, fasc. 4, 1960, pl. 42, nos. 3-6.

cf. Greifenhagen, Adolph, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Mannheim, fasc. 1; Germany, fasc. 13, 1958, pls. 15, no. 1 and 18, no. 5.