Fragment from Red-Figure Cup: Woman
c. 470–460 BC
Telephos Painter
Telephos Painter (Greek, Attic, active 480–460 BC)
Greek and Roman Art
Fragment from Red-Figure Cup: Woman, c. 470–460 BC. Near the Telephos Painter (Greek, Attic, active 480–460 BC). Ceramic; overall: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.533.b A bit of preserved lip shows that this fragment comes from a kylix, or drinking cup. A finely dressed woman, with earring and headband, reaches out with her right hand, now lost but once holding a wreath in added red paint. Relief lines standing above the surface outline the face, neck, arm, and other details. Painted on the back side of this fragment is ORVIETO, its likely findspot more than a century ago.
- Maker/Artist
- Telephos Painter
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- ceramic
- Medium
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.)
- Departments
- Greek and Roman Art
- Accession Number
- 1915.533.b
- Credit Line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Exhibitions
- Inaugural Exhibition
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 102B Greek
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