Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)
ca. 490–480 BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
Overall: 3 7/16 x 11in. (8.8 x 28cm)
Classification
Vases
Culture & Period
Greek, Attic · Classical
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Christos G. Bastis Gift, 1958
Accession Number
58.11.4
Art Historical Context
Step into the lively world of ancient Athens with this exquisite terracotta kylix, a drinking cup crafted by the Brygos Painter around 490–480 BCE. Hailing from Attic Greece during the early Classical period, this 3 7/16 x 11-inch (8.8 x 28 cm) vessel the red-figure technique, where artists painted figures in the natural red clay and incised details with black slip. The Brygos Painter, named after the potter Brygos whose signature appears on some works, was renowned for his dynamic compositions and spirited scenes, often capturing the revelry of symposia—elite male drinking parties central to ...
About the Artist
Brygos Painter
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...