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© Bruce M. White, 2005.
Black-Figure Eye Cup, Warships and Prows of Warships at the Handles
© Bruce M. White, 2005.
© Bruce M. White, 2005.
© Bruce M. White, 2005.
ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Black-Figure Eye Cup, Warships and Prows of Warships at the Handles

AAT Object Form/Functioneye cups (kylikes)
AAT Object TechniqueBlack-figure
Place CreatedGreece, Europe
CultureGreek, Attic
PeriodArchaic
Dateca. 530 BCE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art
Dimensions4 1/2 x 10 1/16 in. (11.4 x 25.6 cm)
Object number2000.001.003
Exhibition HistoryAncient Art from New York Private Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, December 17 1959 - February 28, 1960
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - December 4, 2013
Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult and Daily Life (travelling show), Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, February 8 - May 11, 2014; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, June 2014 - November 30, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, March 19, 2015 - Present
Published ReferencesChristie, Manson, and Woods, London, Catalogue of Etruscan and Greek Vases, Fine English Furniture, Objects of Art and Clocks, and English Carpets: The Property of Earl Fitzwilliam's Wentworth Estates Company (15 July 1948), number 15.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, From the Collection of the Late William Randolph Hearst (7 December 1951), 1, number 3.
J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1956), 223, number 65.
Cornelius C. Vermeule and Dietrich von Bothmer, "Notes on a New Addition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain. Part Two," American Journal of Archaeology 60, no. 4 (October 1956): 346, plate 113, figure 38.
Cornelius C. Vermeule and Dietrich von Bothmer, "Notes on a New Addition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain. Part Three: 2," American Journal of Archaeology 63, no. 4 (October 1959): 346.
Dietrich von Bothmer, Ancient Art from New York Private Collections (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1961), 57, number 223, plate 74.
John S. Morrison and Roderick T. Williams, Greek Oared Ships, 900-322 B.C. (Cambridge: University Press, 1968), 99, number 59, plate 16b.
Bernard V. Bothmer, et al., Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1987), 272-273, number 159.
Dietrich von Bothmer, "The Greeks and the Sea as Reflected in Attic Vase Painting," in The Greeks and the Sea, ed. S. Vryonis (New York: A.D. Caratzas, 1993), 23-58.
Sotheby's, The Christos G. Bastis Collection (New York, December 9, 1999), 98-99, lot 86.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2000.
Louise Pratt, Eros at the Banquet: Reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011), 29-30.
Seth D. Pevnick, et al., Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life (Tampa: Tampa Museum of Art, 2014), 159, catalogue 93.
Robin F. Rhodes, "Vessels, Drinking," in The Herodotus Encyclopedia, Volume III, ed. Christopher Baron (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2021), 1522, Figure 50.
ProvenanceEx coll. The Earl Fitzwilliam, Wentworth Woodhouse, Great Britain, until 1948. Ex coll. William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), New York, purchased from Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, July 15, 1948, lot 15. Ex coll. Christos G. Bastis (1904-1999), New York and Florida, purchased from Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, December 7, 1951, lot 3. Purchased by MCCM from Sotheby's New York, December 9, 1999, lot 86.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Greek and Roman Art