Kylix (Drinking Cup)

Museum collection

Museum work by Penthesilea Painter

Art Institute of Chicago

Thread 01583

Love & Harmony

Where the original lives

Art Institute of Chicago

The original is held by the Art Institute of Chicago and is not for sale. This piece is shown for reference — no edition of it is offered.

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Curator’s note

Penthesilea Painter (about 460 BCE) from Ancient Greece. Held in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and released into the public domain, offered here as a museum-quality edition within the love thread.

Details

Artist: Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter
Date: about 460 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Dimensions: 14.2 × 45 × 37 cm · 5.6 × 17.7 in
Origin: Ancient Greece
Collection: Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson

Placing a love & harmony work

Works in this thread tend to come in twos — two figures, two birds, a pair of forms leaning toward each other — or in the warm end of the spectrum, roses and garden light and skin. Traditionally hung in pairs rather than singly, and never so high that the figures look away from the room.

Direction: South-west — the quarter of partnership
Rooms: Bedrooms · Dining rooms · Shared studies · Guest rooms

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Provenance & rights

Source collection: Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson. Public domain (CC0). Shown here for reference, with full attribution to the artist and holding institution. No edition of this work is offered.