Black-Figure Band Cup with Scenes of Herakles and the Sea Monster and Peleus and Thetis

AAT Object Form/Functionband cups

AAT Object TechniqueBlack-figure

CultureGreek, Attic

PeriodArchaic

Dateca. 540 BCE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art

Dimensions5 5/8 x 11 13/16 x 8 7/8 in. (14.3 x 30 x 22.6 cm)

Object number2000.001.002

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, 2002 - September 2003
The Centaur's Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art (travelling show), Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, October 18, 2003 - January 25, 2004; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, February - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - January 2011
Monsters, Demons & Winged Beasts: Composite Creatures in the Ancient World, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 5 - June 19, 2011
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, June 20, 2011 - 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 - November 30, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 2, 2015 - Present
Published ReferencesFrank Brommer, Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage 2. Auflage (Marburg: N.G. Elwert, 1960), 116, number 101.1, 243, number 49.
Frank Brommer, Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage 3. Auflage (Marburg: N.G. Elwert, 1973), 323, number 72.
Antika Vaser, Samling Henning Throne-Holst (Private Publication, 1975), number 10.
Ruth Glynn, "Herakles, Nereus and Triton: A Study of Iconography in Sixth Century Athens," American Journal of Archaeology 85 (1981): 128.
Gudrun Ahlberg-Cornell, Herakles and the Sea-Monster in Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painting (Stockholm: Paul Astroms Forlag, 1984), 8, 31.
Christie's London, The Collection of the Late Henning Throne-Holst (June 8, 1988), 30, lot 36.
Judith M. Barringer, Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995), 185, number 59.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2000.
J. Michael Padgett, et al., The Centaur's Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2003), 19-20, figure 16; 343-46, catalogue number 96.
Eleni Hatzivassiliou, "Warriors at a Mound: A Puzzle Scene by the Theseus and Athena Painters," in The World of Greek Vases, ed. Vinnie Norskov et al (Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2009), 122, 125, figure 12.
MCCM Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2011.
Pieter Heesen, Athenian Little-Master Cups (Amsterdam: Chairebooks, 2011), 270, number 100, plate 30c-d.
Seth D. Pevnick, et al., Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life (Tampa: Tampa Museum of Art in Association with D. Giles Limited, London, 2014), 123, catalogue number 9.
Heide Mommsen, "Reflections on Triton," in Approaching the Ancient Artifact: Representation, Narrative, and Function. A Festschrift in honor of H. Alan Shapiro, ed. Amalia Avramidou and Denise Demetriou (Boston: De Gruyter, 2014), 53-63.
Sara Chiarini, The So-Called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 256-257.
Deborah Steiner, Choral Constructions in Greek Culture : the Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), Figure 5.5.

ProvenanceEx coll. Henning Throne-Holst (1895-1980), Sweden, purchased from Ars Antiqua, Luzern, Switzerland, 1959. Thence by descent. European art market, 1984. With Christie's London, June 8, 1988, lot 36. Purchased by MCCM from Phoenix Ancient Art, S.A., Geneva, Switzerland.

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On view

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