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Black-Glazed High-Handled Cup (Kantharos)

Culture Greek
Title Black-Glazed High-Handled Cup (Kantharos)
Date 360–340 BCE
Medium Terracotta with added gold
Dimensions Overall: 7 11/16 in. (19.5 cm)
Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 80.27.1

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On this handsome drinking cup, the ivy wreaths and the festoon of bull's heads (bucrania) were built up in low relief to make the gold foil adhere. Gilding on painted vases was practiced in Athens from the late 6th century BCE.


1980, Indiana University Art Museum purchase from Robin Symes Limited, London, England

?–1980, with Robin Symes Limited, London, England [1]

Notes:

[1] Robin Symes (b. 1939) operated as an art and antiquities dealer in London from about 1970. Robin Symes Limited was founded in 1977 and dissolved in 2005.

Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.

October 3–December 21, 2014, "Color in Classical Art," Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN

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