Fragment of a Kylix with a Donkey by the Antiphon Painter in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, January 2018

Drinking cup (kylix) depicting a mule
the Antiphon Painter
Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
about 480 B.C.

Medium/Technique: Ceramic, Red Figure


Dimensions: Diameter: 16.7 cm (6 9/16 in.)

Credit Line: Julia Bradford Huntington James Fund and Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution

Accession Number: 10.199

Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome

Classifications: Vessels

Catalogue Raisonné: Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 144.

Description:

Interior: Greek inscription on exergue in brown lettering "Laches is handsome" (LAXES KALOS).

Greek inscription in field at the edge of the tondo, "Nikostratos is handsome" (NIKOSTRATOS KALOS). The inscription begins above the donkey's foot, and its ears intervene between the letters Tau and Rho.

Exterior: Undecorated.

Inscriptions: Inscriptions: "Laches is handsome" (LAXES KALOS); "Nikostratos is handsome" (NIKOSTRATOS KALOS)
LΑΧΕS ΚΑLΟS

ΝΙΚΟSΤΡΑΤΟS ΚΑΛΟS

Provenance: By date unknown: purchased by E. P. Warren from the Bourguignon Collection (according to Warren's records: bought from Bourguignon in Naples. From Orvieto); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, June 2, 1910, for $4,000.00 (this figure is the total price for MFA 10.159-10.230)

Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/153731/drinking-cup-kylix-depicting-a-mule