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Inv. n°: MMoCA471

Greek Teano Ware Kylix (Drinking Cup) with Erotic Scene

The main decoration shows a couple enjoying intercourse; both figures are naked apart from the woman whose hair is bound beneath a saccos. She rests against a rocky outcrop, supporting her weight on her right elbow. The beardless youth leans forward his arms at his sides. A small tree is in the field. The subsidiary decoration consists of entwined vine leaves and rosettes, linked by incised stems.

Ø. 24.7 cm
Last quarter of the 4th century BC
Clay

Provenance

  • Ex Sello thence collection Rezzonico, Locarno (Switzerland), 1960
  • Acquired at Charles Ede LTD, London, December 14, 2009

Publications

  • A Very Rare Subject in this Fabric. For the Subsidiary Decoration Compare M. Mayo, Vases from Magna Graecia, Richmond, 1982, stock no. 8660/T
  • J. Boardman, "Greek Art" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 64, fig. 23

Exhibitions

  • Confidentiel - Être femme à l'époque grecque, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011
  • Musée d'Archéologie méditerranéenne, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France, October 17, 2010 — May 23, 2016

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