Black-Figure Kotyle (Drinking Cup): Chain of Women
attributed to Patras Painter (Greek, Middle Corinthian)
c. 590–560 BCE, with modern repainting and reincising
- Medium
- ceramic
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.); Overall: 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- Greek, Corinthian
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Reassembled from 34 fragments, this cup bears ancient decoration that has been made more legible through modern repainting and re-incising, or re-scratching, of the internal details of figures and rosettes. Because they are irreversible and potentially misleading, such modern interventions are no longer seen as acceptable; when sold in 1922, the cup was described as “repaired,” albeit without additional explanation.
