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Attic Red-Figure Cup Type A (Interior view)

Psiax

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

On both on the interior and the exterior of this cup, the vase-painter depicted encounters between youths and men, and males and females. Produced soon after the invention of the red-figure technique, what makes this cup particularly unusual is that the painter employed a variety of other decorative techniques - incision, added‑white and –red, and added‑clay relief. Thus, the lyre on side A has arms and a cross‑piece painted in added color (much of which has flaked off), incised strings, and a raised sound box added in clay (now chipped). The leftmost youth sits on a camp stool which the artist added in clay relief. It has white hinges and is topped by what was once a red cushion.

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  • Title: Attic Red-Figure Cup Type A (Interior view)
  • Creator: Psiax
  • Date Created: about 520 B.C.
  • Location Created: Athens, Greece
  • Physical Dimensions: 11 × 27.5 cm (4 5/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
  • Type: Cup
  • External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
  • Medium: Terracotta
  • Terms of Use: Open Content
  • Number: 86.AE.278
  • Culture: Greek (Attic)
  • Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California
  • Creator Display Name: Psiax (Greek (Attic), active about 525 - 510 B.C.)
  • Classification: Vessels (Containers)
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