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Drinking cup (Little Master kylix) with man riding on Hippalektryon
Greek
Archaic Period
about 545–530 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure
Credit Line
Gift in memory of Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule
Accession Number2001.174
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionFragmentary Lip Cup. Interior: man riding to right on a winged horse with bird's tail and feet. (Hippalektryon). Tongue pattern in borders around. Added red used for man's chest, for the body of the "bird" (parts), and for the alternating tongues.
Exterior: palmettes flanking handles. Inscribed: (in Greek) "Kr...es painted it".
Condition: Eleven fragments.
Exterior: palmettes flanking handles. Inscribed: (in Greek) "Kr...es painted it".
Condition: Eleven fragments.
ProvenanceBy 1970, probably acquired on the Swiss art market by Cornelius C. Vermeule III (b. 1925 - d. 2008) and Emily Townsend Vermeule (b. 1928 - d. 2001), Cambridge, MA [see note]; 2001, gift of Cornelius C. Vermeule to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 21, 2001)
NOTE: First lent to the MFA October 1, 1970 (loan no. 168.1970).
NOTE: First lent to the MFA October 1, 1970 (loan no. 168.1970).