Black glaze kylix painted with laurel leaves
Black glaze kylix painted with laurel leaves
Place of OriginItaly, Apulia
Datelate 4th century BCE
DimensionsH: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); Rim Diam: 7 in. (17.8 cm); Max Diam (across handles): 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm); Base Diam: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
MediumEarthenware, Xenon ware.
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineGift of the Popplestone Family
Object number
2006.88
Not on View
DescriptionThe interior is painted with a wreath of laurel leaves and berries around a 9-leaf palmette in the tondo.
Published ReferencesAncient World Arts Ltd., Ancient World Arts Collection A998 (1998), no. A275. Cf. for the type: Margaret Ellen Mayo (ed.), The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, exhibition catalogue, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, 1982, no. 159.
First half of the 1st century
Late 2nd to early 3rd century CE
1st century
50 BCE-50 CE
3rd-2nd century BCE
about 300 BCE
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