Red-Figure Cup Fragment with Reveller, His Head Thrown Back in Song, and Two Letters of Inscription, Perhaps for [Lea]gr[os kalos] ("Leagros is Handsome")

AAT Object Form/Functionsherds

AAT Object TechniqueRed-figure

AAT Object Form/Functioncups (drinking vessels)

(not assigned)Greece

CultureGreek, Attic

PeriodArchaic

Dateca. 520 BCE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art

Dimensions2 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)

Object number2005.026.004A

Exhibition HistoryEuphronios, peintre a Athenes au VIe siecle avant J.-C., Musee du Louvre, September 18 - December 31, 1990
From Pharaohs to Emperors: New Egyptian and Classical Antiquities at Emory, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 14 - April 2, 2006
Published ReferencesEuphronios, peintre a Athenes au VIe siecle avant J.-C.: Musee du Louvre, Paris, 18 septembre - 31 decembre 1990 (Paris: Editions de la Reunion des musees nationaux, 1990), number 50.
Sotheby's New York, Antiquities (June 7, 2005), 30, number 26.
Dyfri Williams, "Villard and the Campana Collection: Euphronios and Smikros," in Ceramic and pein turegrecqu're in the Ancient Mediterranean, Terrain at the Museum: Tributes to Francois Villard, ed. Francoise Gaultier, et al (Paris: Boccard Editions, 2019), 175.

ProvenanceWith Peter Sharrer, New Jersey, acquired from European art market, 1982-1983. Previously on loan to Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1990 (L.1990.134a). Purchased by MCCM from Sotheby's New York, June 7, 2005, lot 26.

Status

Not on view

Collections