Potter attaches handle to kylix

Title
Potter attaches handle to kylix
Repository
British Museum
Alternative
Kylix Eye cup Old Catalogue 670 Vase B432
Creator
unknown
Photographer
Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display
unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter)
Description
Pottery: black-figure kylix. Rough style. Interior, in a medallion: A potter, nude and beardless, with drapery over left shoulder, seated to right before a wheel, on which is a kylix of archaic shape, the handle of which he is moulding; on a shelf above him are four kylikes, in two piles, and an oinochoe. Exterior: (a) Gigantomachia: Athene advancing to right, with high-crested helmet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, aegis on left arm, attacks Enkelados with spear; he has fallen back with right leg drawn up; he has an embroidered chlamys over his shoulder. On either side, eyes, black, with a white ring round the pupil. In the field, branches and bunches of grapes. (b) The same design. Under each handle, a dolphin to right. --The British Museum A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Smith, A H; Pryce, F N, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2, London, BMP, 1926
View
Interior
Coverage
Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Temporal
ca. 500-480 BCE
Subject
Neolithic, Mycenaean Pottery I Process of Making Vases Vases in tombs
Style Period
Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type
kylikes
Date
-0500/-0480
Identifier
Lowenstam_VRC_04466
Item Locator
Box 10, Section 16
Rights
In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder
University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Local Collection Name
Steven Lowenstam Collection
Type
Image
Format
image/tiff
Measurements
Height: 8.89 ca Diameter: 20.32 ca
Material
pottery | painted; incised
Set
Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
Primary Set
Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
Institution
University of Oregon
Cultural Context
Attic (culture)
Id Current Repository
1847,1125.18