Group of 192 drinking cup fragments
Place made:Greece
Date: Little Master cup: ca. 560-530 B.C.; red-figure and black-gloss cup fragments: 500-400 B.C.
Dimensions:Little Master cup, max. diam.: 5 1/2 in. (13.9 cm)
Fragmentary red-figure kylix 1: 1 3/4 × 8 1/4 × 6 11/16 in. (4.5 × 21 × 17 cm)
Fragmentary red-figure kylix 2: 2 9/16 × 8 7/8 × 7 11/16 in. (6.5 × 22.5 × 19.5 cm)
Fragmentary red-figure kylix 3: 3 1/8 × 8 7/16 × 6 1/8 in. (8 × 21.5 × 15.5 cm)
Fragmentary red-figure kylix 4: 2 3/4 × 13 1/16 × 8 1/16 in. (7 × 33.2 × 20.5 cm)
Fragmentary red-figure kylix 5: 2 7/16 × 8 7/8 × 8 1/8 in. (6.2 × 22.6 × 20.7 cm)
Fragmentary red-figure kylix 6: 2 9/16 × 12 3/16 × 8 9/16 in. (6.5 × 30.9 × 21.8 cm)
Fragmentary red-figure kylix 8: 2 1/2 × 8 15/16 in. (6.3 × 22.7 cm)
Fragmentary black-gloss kylix 7: 1 9/16 × 8 5/8 × 7 13/16 in. (4 × 21.9 × 19.8 cm)
Fragmentary black-gloss kylix 18: 1 3/8 × 7 3/8 × 4 1/2 in. (3.5 × 18.8 × 11.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: DEAC.86.134.196
Provenance: found at Barbarano Romano, Italy, according to Edoardo Almagià; sold by Edoardo Almagià, New York, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1985; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986 [accession number 86.134.196]; deaccessioned in February 2021 and transferred to the Manhattan District Attorney, New York, for restitution to Italy
Published References
86.134.196a (Little Master Cup):
H. A. Shapiro, C. A. Picón, and G. D. Scott, III, Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio: San Antonio Museum of Art, 1995), 267, no. 178.
P. Heesen, "Drinking Inscriptions on Attic Little-Master Cups: Does Size Matter? A Contribution to the AVI Project," Museum Helveticum 63 (2006) 53, no. 40.