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Red-figure Kylix (cup) with Symposion Scene

Red-figure Kylix (cup) with Symposion Scene

active ca. 700 - 480 B.C.

Ceramic
5 1/8 x 16 1/8 in. (13 x 41 cm)
Diam.: 13 in.
Gift of the Norman and Amelia Davis Classical Collection
59.30
Provenance: [F. Kleinberger & Co., Inc., New York, by 1959]; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum (with funds donated by Norman and Amelia Davis), 21 January 1959
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Published ReferencesArt Quarterly, 23.2, Summer 1960, p. 183

Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vases, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963, no. 62, p. 420

Downer, Marion, The Story of Design, New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1963, pp. 48-49

KLSN Preview Program Guide, May 1964, p. 7

SAM Christmas Card, 1968

Bliquez, Lawrence J. Classical Vases and Containers in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1985; cat. no. 20, p. 25.

Bliquez, Lawrence. "Ancient Art of the Mediterranean and the Near East." In Selected Works, pp. 26-28. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1991; p. 28, reproduced (as Kylix).

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