Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Sabouroff Painter
mid-5th century BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Classification
Vases
Culture & Period
Greek, Attic · Classical
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
Accession Number
2011.604.1.3857
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Sabouroff Painter
**The Sabouroff Painter** was an anonymous Athenian vase-painter active during the early Classical period, flourishing roughly between 470 and 440 BC. His conventional name was coined by Sir John Beazley after a nuptial lebes (a type of wedding bowl) formerly in the Sabouroff collection and now in Berlin; consistent stylistic traits across hundreds of surviving works confirm him as a distinct arti...