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© Bruce M. White, 2006.
Cup with Musical Festival
© Bruce M. White, 2006.
© Bruce M. White, 2006.
© Bruce M. White, 2006.
ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art
Artist (Greek, Laconian, active ca. 570 - 530 BCE)

Cup with Musical Festival

AAT Object Form/Functionkylikes
AAT Object Form/Functioncups (drinking vessels)
Place CreatedLaconia, Greece, Europe
CultureGreek
PeriodArchaic
Dateca. 570 BCE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineLoaned by the Italian Republic/Concesso in prestito dalla Repubblica Italiana.
Dimensions5 1/4 x 11 1/2 x 8 5/16 in. (13.3 x 29.2 x 21.1 cm)
Object numberL2023.004.003
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - April 28, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesConrad M. Stibbe, "A Laconian Volute Krater from Sicily," Xenia 19 (1990): 15, figure 12.
Conrad M. Stibbe, "Dionysos mit einer Kithara?," in KOTINOS: Festschrift fur Erika Simon, ed. Heide Froning, et al. (Mainz/Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1992), 139-45, figure 1.
Alfred Schafer, Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposion: Darbietungen, Spiele und Wettkampfe von homerischer bis in spatklassiche Zeit (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1997), 33, 100 Katalog II 4 h, Tafel 8.
Maria Pipili, "Archaic Laconian Vase-Painting: Some Iconographic Considerations," in Sparta in Laconia: Proceedings of the 19th British Museum Classical Colloquium, ed. William G. Cavanagh and SEC Walker (London: British School at Athens, 1998), 92, figure 8.12.
Reinhard Fortsch, Kunstverwendung und Kunstlegitimation im archaischen und fruhklassischen Sparta (Mainz: Von Zabern, 2001), 149-151, abbildung 132.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2003.
Conrad M. Stibbe, Lakonische Vasenmaler der sechsten Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Supplement (Mainz am Rhein: P. Von Zabern, 2004), 224, Nr. 1 [Nr. 182], Tafel 49-50.
Jasper Gaunt, "New Galleries of Greek & Roman Art at Emory University: The Michael C. Carlos Museum," Minerva 16 (January/February 2005): 13-17.
MCCM Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2013.
Jacques Chamay, "La vie des enfants dans la Grece antique," in Antiquite: 180 articles de presse (Geneva: Slatkine, 2014), 91.
An Jiang, "Karneia and Kitharoidos: Rereading a Laconian Cup in the Michael C. Carlos Museum," in The Consumer's Choice: Uses of Greek Figure-Decorated Pottery, ed. Thomas H. Carpenter, et al. (Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 2016), 23-40, figures 1, 4, and 5.
ProvenanceWith Ursula Becchina [Palladion Antike Kunst], Basel, Switzerland, from at least 1988. Purchased by MCCM from Palladion. Title transferred to the Italian Republic, August 29, 2023.
Status
On view