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Kylix with Eyes and Goat Medallion

Workshop of the Nikosthenes Painter (Greek, active ca. 510-500 BCE) (?) (Workshop)
late 6th century BCE (Archaic)
terracotta, wheel made; bilingual (red and black figure)
(Ancient Greece )

This kylix (Type A) depicts a black-figure goat to the right with forelegs raised in the tondo.

The sides of the kylix depict red-figure eyes and eyebrows between a palmette with stem on either side. The front also depicts a nose.

Provenance
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [1897 cat. no. 207]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
7/27/1987 Treatment x-ray
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Geographies

Greece, Attica (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 5 3/16 x W with handles: 15 1/4 in. (13.1 x 38.7 cm); Diam at mouth: 12 1/16 in. (30.6 cm); Diam at foot: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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48.44

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