1995.18.9.B: Fragment of an Attic Red-figure Cup: two komasts

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1995.18.9.B

People

Workshop of Nikosthenes, Greek (active late 6th century BCE)

Title

Fragment of an Attic Red-figure Cup: two komasts

Classification

Fragments

Work Type

sherd

Date

c. 510 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Athens (Attica)

Period

Archaic period

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/337406

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Dimensions

greatest dimen.: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Dr. J. Robert Guy, Oxford England (?-1994) sold; to Peter Sharrar, New York (1994-1995), sold: to Harvard University Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Jonathan H. Kagan, Mr. and Mrs. Evangelos Karvounis, Ian M. Watson McLaughlin, Nicholas S. Zoullas and the Florence Gould Foundation, and the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing, Director's Discretionary and Marian H. Phinney Funds

Accession Year

1995

Object Number

1995.18.9.B

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

One fragment from an Attic red-figure cup depicts the feet of two figures, and the other depicts two komasts.

Publication History

• Aaron J. Paul, "Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing Upon Greek Vases", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Spring 1997), vol. V, no. 2, pp. 7-87, p.26; p.53, fig.33

Related Works

• 1995.18.9.A-B

  Workshop of Nikosthenes

  Two Fragments of an Attic Red-figure Cup: A: feet of two figures; B: two komasts

  Fragments

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