Cup with dining scenes
Place made:Greece
Date: ca. 565-560 B.C.
Dimensions:h. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm); diameter of rim: 10 7/16 in. (26.5 cm); diameter of foot: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.134.34
Provenance: sold, Sotheby's, London, December 11, 1984, lot 282, to Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg; sold by Galerie Günter Puhze to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1985; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
Published References
Sotheby's London, 11 December 1984, lot 282 (illus. of side A reversed)
Galerie Günter Puhze, "Kunst der Antike," cat. 6 (Freiburg 1985) 20, no. 206 (illus. of side B reversed)
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) pp.74-5, no. 32
Label TextSides A and B: Banquet or symposium scene
Interior: Female head
On both sides of this cup, pairs of men recline on couches; in front of each couch is a table heaped with meat and bread. Though the guests recline like symposiasts, no wine is depicted, so the occasion may be a communal meal rather than a symposium. (Jessica Powers 2008)