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

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