Kylix with a Prostitute Preparing to Bathe

AAT Object Form/Functionkylikes

AAT Object TechniqueRed-figure

CultureGreek, Attic

Periodlate Archaic - early Classical

Dateca. 480 BCE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art

Dimensions10 3/8 x 3 x 7 1/2 in. (26.4 x 7.6 x 19.1 cm)

Object number2003.010.001

Exhibition HistoryExhibition of Greek Art 3000 B.C. - A.D. 1945, Burlington House, London, England, February 15 - March 17, 1946
Classical Antiquities from Private Collections in Great Britain, Sotheby's London, England, January 15 - 31, 1986
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - April 28, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Confronting Slavery in the Classical World, Michael C. Carlos Museum (virtual exhibition), September 29, 2021 - December 19, 2021
Published ReferencesThe Times, Greek Art: Exhibition at the Royal Academy (February 14, 1946): 6.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Exhibition of Greek Art, 3000 B.C. - A.D. 1945 (London, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, 1946), 8, number 82.
Jacqueline Chittenden and Charles Theodore Seltman, Greek Art: A Commemorative Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in 1946 at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London (London: Faber and Faber, 1947), 29, number 82, plate 18.
Cornelius Vermeule and Dietrich von Bothmer, "Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis," American Journal of Archaeology 63 (1959): 152.
J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters, 2nd Edition. Volume I (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 479, number 330.
Carlos A. Picon, Classical Antiquities from Private Collections in Great Britain: A Loan Exhibition in Aid of the Ashmole Archive: 15th-31st January, 1986 (London: Sothebys, 1986), 25, number 21, plate IV.
J.D. Beazley and Donna C. Kurtz, Greek Vases: Lectures (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), plate 75, number 3.
Thomas Carpenter et al., Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 and Paralipomena (Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989), 247.
Norbert Kunisch, Makron (Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1997), plate 43, number 12.
Sotheby's London, The Charterhouse Collection (November 5, 2002), 34-35, lot 68.
Jermoe M. Eisenberg, "The Winter 2002 Antiquities Sales," Minerva 14, no. 2 (March - April 2003): 36, figure 3.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2003.
Jasper Gaunt, "New Galleries of Greek & Roman Art at Emory University: The Michael C. Carlos Museum," Minerva 16 (January/February 2005): 13-17.
Jasper Gaunt, Veranda (March/April 2005): 128.
Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant, Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation, 4th Edition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), 44, Figure 7.

ProvenanceEx coll. Charterhouse School Museum, Godalming, England, by February 1946. Purchased by MCCM from Sotheby's London, November 5, 2002, lot 68.

Status

On view

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