Greek, Attic, ca. 540 B.C.

Terracotta

D: 12.9 cm

Serial: 35348

The lip-cup was one of the favorite shapes for the Little Masters, who specialized in detailed miniature decoration. On the center of each side drawn in outline style rather than in the pure black figure technique. Most have a female profile with details in added red. The bearded male on one side of the cup presented here is rare.

Provenance: Ex- Private Collection, Switzerland, 1975 or earlier; Ex- N. Koutoulakis (1910-1996) collection, Geneva; Ex- Private collection, acquired in 1987

PUBLISHED

J. Do¨rig, Art Antique: Collections Prive´es de Suisse Romande, Geneva, 1975, no. 160;

K. Vierneisel and B. Kaeser, Kunst der Schale, Munich, 1990, pp. 86 and 479, fig. 10.10;

P. Heesen, Athenian Little-Master Cups, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 109, n. 650;

Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 777.