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Cup

Greek
Geometric Period

Medium/Technique Ceramic
Dimensions Height: 9.7 cm (3 13/16 in.); diameter: 10.1 cm (4 in.)
Credit Line Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.775
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 273.
DescriptionZone of long-necked birds to left. Lines and interlaced zig-zags.
One-handled cup. Concave sides. Dipylon.
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren ([one of a group of eleven Dipylon vases 03.772-03.782] according to Warren's records: Bt. in Paris. All the Dipylon vases were said to have been found together, and were certainly found in Athens. [Also in Warren's records is the following note]: "I had seen them in a garden in Athens." J.M. [John Marshall]); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24,1903