Attic Red-Figure Cup Type A (Interior view)

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.