Kantharos (drinking cup) in the Form of a Satyr’s Head

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Kantharos (drinking cup) in the Form of a Satyr’s Head

Place of OriginAttica, Greece

Date500-450 BCE

Dimensions5 7/8 × 3 5/8 × 2 1/4 in. (15 × 9.3 × 5.8 cm)

Mediumearthenware

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1917.134

Not on View

DescriptionMolded, wheel-thrown, and slip-decorated earthenware.

Published References

Beazley, John D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Oxford, 2nd ed., 1963, p. 1544, no. 6 (the entry describes this vase incorrectly as being janiform.)

Beazley, John D., Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 504.

Luckner, Kurt T., "Greek Vases: Shapes and Uses," The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 15, no. 3, 1972, p. 80, repr. fig. 27.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A. fasc. 17, Toledo Museum of Art, 1976, pls. 57, 3 and 4, p. 37.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Beazley, J.D., "Charinos," Journal of Hellenistic Studies, London, 1929, vol. XLIX, part 1, p. 65.

cf. Auktion XVIII Basel, Basel, Munzen und Medaillen, 1958, pl. 37, no. 117 (now ARV2 p. 1544, no. 12 - for a close parallel to the Toledo satyr's face on a Janiform satyr's head Kantharos).