Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles): two female heads
Brygos Painter|Providence Class of Head Vases
ca. 490–480 BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
H. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm) diameter 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm)
Classification
Vases
Culture & Period
Greek, Attic · Archaic
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1912
Accession Number
12.234.5
Tags
HeadsMusicFlutesSatyrsWomen
About the Artist
Brygos Painter|Providence Class of Head Vases
The Brygos Painter is one of the most gifted and prolific red-figure vase painters of ancient Athens, active in the early fifth century BCE during one of the most dynamic periods of Greek artistic development. Like most ancient Greek vase painters, he is known to us not by his personal name but by a conventional scholarly designation — in this case derived from the potter Brygos, whose name appear...