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Kylix with the Game of Kottabos by the Foundry Painter in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, January 2018

Kylix with the Game of Kottabos by the Foundry Painter in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, January 2018
Drinking cup (kylix) with a youth playing a drinking game (kottabos)

The Villa Giulia Painter

Greek

Classical Period

about 450–440 B.C.

Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens

Medium/Technique: Ceramic, Red Figure

Dimensions: 8.7 cm (3 7/16 in.)

Credit Line: Gift of Thomas Gold Appleton

Accession Number: 76.47

Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome

Classifications: Vessels

Description: Interior: Youth reclining on couch, playing kottabos.
Exterior side A: Youth with staff, youth with lyre, bearded man.
Exterior side B: Bearded man, youth with lyre youth with staff. Illegible inscriptions.

[Label text]:
The exterior of this kylix depicts a symposium scene with men of varying ages enjoying music from a lyre. On the inside of the kylix, a young man is shown reclining on a couch, lifting his drinking vessel, possibly playing a drinking game.

Provenance: By date unknown: Thomas G. Appleton Collection (purchased from Alessandro Castellani and said to be from Capua); gift of Thomas G. Appleton to MFA, 1876

Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/153666/drinking-cup-kylix-with-a-youth-playing-a-drinking-game-k
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 LaurieAnnie
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Drinking cup (kylix) depicting scenes from a symposium

the Foundry Painter

Greek

Late Archaic or Early Classical Period

about 480 B.C.

Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens

Medium/Technique: Ceramic, Red Figure

Dimensions: Height: 11.7 cm (4 5/8 in.); diameter 29.8 cm (11 3/4 in)

Credit Line: Henry Lillie Pierce Fund

Accession Number: 01.8034

Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome

Classifications: Vessels

Catalogue Raisonné Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 032.

Description: Interior: Man and youth on couch. Greek inscription in the field. Above the figures "The boy" (HO PAIS), below, " (is) handsome, (is) handsome" (KALOS, KALOS).

Exterior side A: Youths and men on couches with nude boys as pourers. Greek inscription "The boy is handsome" (HO PAIS KALOS) above the figures.

Exterior side B: Bearded man and two youths on couches. Greek inscription "The boy is handsome" above the figures (HO PAIS KALOS).

Inscriptions: Interior: above - ΗΟΠΑΙS; below - ΚΑLΟS ΚΑLΟS

Exterior Side A: ΗΟΠΑΙS ΚΑLΟS

Exterior Side B: ΗΟΠΑΙS ΚΑLΟS

Provenance: By date unknown: Alfred Bourguignon collection; by 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: bought privately from the collection of Alfred Bourguignon.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901

Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/153705/drinking-cup-kylix-depicting-scenes-from-a-symposium
14 months ago.

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