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A wide-mouthed drinking cup glazed in black with two handles extending from opposite sides.

9.2 × 22.5 × 16.2 cm (3 5/8 × 8 7/8 × 6 3/8 in.)

Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

During the course of the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, black vessels (commonly called black-glaze vessels) were made with increasing frequency in both Greece and South Italy. Many of them replicate the shape of metal vessels. Others have detailing that is molded or incised. While the quality of these vessels varies greatly, all would have been less expensive than vessels decorated in other contemporary techniques, for example, in red-figure.

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Credit Line

Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson

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Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek," Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012-present.