Kylix (drinking cup); A. Between Eyes: Head of a Youthful Warrior; B. Between Eyes: Head of a Bearded Warrior

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Kylix (drinking cup); A. Between Eyes: Head of a Youthful Warrior; B. Between Eyes: Head of a Bearded Warrior

Artist Workshop of the potter Nikosthenes (Greek)

Place of OriginGreek, from Attica

Dateabout 520 BCE

DimensionsH: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm); Diam (lip): 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm); Diam (with handles): 11 17/32 in. (29.3 cm); Diam (foot): 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm)

MediumBlack Figure; Wheel-thrown, slip-decorated earthenware with incised details; decoration: heads of a warrior and Ares, cocks and eyes

ClassificationCeramics

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

Object number

1967.135

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Collections

Decorative Arts

Published ReferencesAuktion 34. Kunstwerke der Antike. 6.Mai 1967. Basel, Münzen and Medaillen, A.G., pp. 65-66, lot no. 131.

Riefstahl, Rudolph M., "Greek Vases," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 11, no. 2, 1968, p. 33.

Riefstahl, Rudolph M., "Treasures for Toledo," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News,vol. 12, no. 4, 1969, p. 90.

Luckner, Kurt T., "Greek Vases: Shapes and Uses," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 76-77.

Von Vacano, Otfried, Zur Entstehung und Deutung gemalter seitenansichtiger Kopfbilder auf schwarzfigurigen Vasen des griechischen Festlands, Bonn, 1973, pp. 41, 233, A-169.

Schauenburg, Konrad, Archaeologischer Anzeiger, 1974, p. 152, note 21.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus vasorum antiquorum: Toledo Museum of Art, U.S.A. Fasc. 17, Toledo, 1976, p. 25-26, repr. pl. 37 and 38,1, profile drawing fig. 5..