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Red-figure Kylix

Artist Euaion Painter (Greek)
Dateca. 470-460 B.C.E.
MediumTerracotta
DimensionsOverall: 14 inches (35.56 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number51-58
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On view
Gallery Location
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Gallery Label
This vase (seen here from underneath) was made for drinking wine at banquets and fine dinners. The artist (named by modern scholars “the Euaion Painter”) has appropriately decorated the cup with happy drinkers.
Provenance

William Henry Lawrence Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (1910-1948), Wentworth, Yorkshire, England, by 1948;


Purchased at his posthumous sale, Etruscan and Greek vases, fine English furniture, objects of art, clocks and English carpets, the property of Earl Fitzwilliam’s Wentworth Estates Company, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, July 15, 1948, lot 18, by the dealer Spink and Son, London, 1948;


William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), New York and San Simeon, CA, by 1951;


Purchased at his posthumous sale, From the Collection of the Late William Randolph Hearst, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Art, Greek Terracotta Vases, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, December 7, 1951, lot 5, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1951.

Published References

“Forthcoming Sales,” Burlington Magazine 110, no. 544 (July 1948): 214.

 

Etruscan and Greek Vases, Fine English Furniture, Objects of Art and Carpets, the Property of Earl Fitzwilliam’s Wentworth Estate Company (London: Christie’s, July 15, 1948), plate at p. 4.

 

T. P. Greig, “The Auction Rooms,” The Connoisseur with which is incorporated International Studio 122, no. 509 (September 1948): 66.

 

From the Collection of the Late William Randolph Hearst Eqyptian, Greek and Roman Art Greek Terra Cotta Vases…(New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, December 7, 1951), p. 2, lot 5.

 

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 27.

 

John Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 791, no. 35. 

 

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 37.

 

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 116.

 

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 11, fig. 27.

Robert Cohon with Karin Jones, “Ancient Greek,” in Ceramics: Highlights from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2016), 60-61.

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