Drinking Cup (Kylix) with Boxers and Trainers

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Drinking Cup (Kylix) with Boxers and Trainers

Artist Triptolemos Painter Greek

Place of OriginGreek, Attic

Dateabout 490 BCE

Dimensions5 7/8 × 16 1/8 × 12 3/4 in. (14.9 × 41 × 32.4 cm)

MediumRed Figure; Wheel-thrown, slip-decorated earthenware

ClassificationCeramics

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

Object number

1961.26

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02, Classic

Collections

Decorative Arts

Published ReferencesKunstwerke der Antike: Auktion XXII, Münzen und Medaillen AG Basel, 13 Mai 1961, pp. 86-87, lot. no. 161.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, Jan.-Mar., 1962," The Art Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 2, 1962, p. 165.

Washington, Sheldon, "Greek Vase Painting," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 5, no. 4, 1962, p. 94-96.

Beazley, John D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Oxford, 2nd ed., 1963, pp. 1648, 1705, no. 36 bix.

Riefstahl, Rudolph M., "Greek Vases," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 11, no. 2, 1968, p. 44.

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

Knauer, Elfriede R., Berliner Winckelmanns Programm, no. 125, p. 17.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus vasorum antiquorum: Toledo Museum of Art, U.S.A. Fasc. 17, Toledo, 1976, p. 32-34, repr. pl. 51 and 52; fig. 9; graffito drawing fig. 8; profile drawing fig. 12.

Poliakoff, Michael B., Combat Sports in the Ancient World, New Haven, 1987, p. 84, fig. 87.

Neils, Jenifer, Goddess and Polis, Hanover, NH, Hood Museum of Art, 1992, no. 34, p. 167, repr. (2 views) and repr. p. 87 (2 views, col.).

MIller, Stephen G., Ancient Greek Athletics, New Haven, Yale, 2004, p. 51, fig. 81, (det., col. ) p. 52.

Pritchard, David. M., Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. 177, fig. 5.1, repr. p. 178.

Dercy, Benoit, Le Trevail des Peaux et du Cuir dans le Monde Grec Antique,, Naples, Centre Jean Berard, 2015, p. 124, fig. 20, repr. (col. det.), fig. 21, repr. (col.) p. 125.

Pritchard, David, Athenian Democracy at War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019. repr. p. 195.

Exhibition History

Chicago, Art Institute, Greek Vase-painting in Midwestern Collections, 1979-1980, no. 103, p. 183, repr.

Hanover, NH, Hood Museum of Art; Tampa Museum of Art; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Princeton University Art Museum; Goddess and Polis, 1992-1993, no. 34.

Univeristy of California, Wight Museum, Los Angeles California. 1993.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase Painting in the Early Fifth Century BC, July 8-October 1, 2017.

Label TextBoth the interior and exterior of this kylix shows athletes with their trainers. One side of the exterior shows young men training with javelins. The interior and the other exterior side show boxers. Several of them are wrapping their hands with leather thongs. The thongs were not meant to soften the blows, but to protect the boxers’ hands. Greek boxing was a brutal sport. Blows to the body were not often used. Instead most of the effort was concentrated on the face and head. The Triptolemos Painter is an anonymous Athenian artist who was identified from his painting style and given his name by modern scholars from a vase showing legendary Greek prince Triptolemos, today in the Louvre Museum.