id: 173728 accession number: 1915.718 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.718 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:10.083000 Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup): Dionysos and Satyr (I); Satyrs and Maenads (A, B), c. 480 BC. Attributed to Douris (Greek, Attic, active c. 500–470 BC), or Painter of London E 55. Ceramic; diameter: 29.6 cm (11 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1915.718 title: Red-Figure Kylix (Drinking Cup): Dionysos and Satyr (I); Satyrs and Maenads (A, B) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 480 BC creation date earliest: -485 creation date latest: -475 current location: creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection copyright: --- culture: Greece, Athens, 5th Century BC technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Douris (Greek, Attic, active c. 500–470 BC) - artist * Painter of London E 55 - artist --- measurements: Diameter: 29.6 cm (11 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections opening date: 1979-12-22T05:00:00 Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (December 22, 1979-February 24, 1980). title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: In the tondo, a dancing satyr approaches the wine god Dionysos, who holds a kantharos and grapevine. digital description: Reconstructed from 72 fragments, this cup has been repaired several times, indicating its enduring value to owners. Pairs of holes straddling cracks once held ancient wire or clamp repairs. Numerous incomplete holes may signify recent interventions. Early modern efforts to hide cracks and certain features of the satyrs that could have offended sensibilities of the time also masked the original artistry of its painting. So, for many years the cup languished in storage. Cleaning and reconstruction in 1952–53 revealed enough to allow attribution to a respected vase painter, Douris, reviving the cup’s reputation. More recently, a different attribution has been suggested, and a new conservation campaign replaced ancient parts from a different cup with modern reconstructions more like those lost. wall description: Greek men enjoyed evenings of wine, poetry, music, and other entertainment at each other's homes. Their favorite drinking cup was the shallow kylix. The user could enjoy the scene on the inside only after draining the cup. His companions could see the exterior scenes as he drank. Here the subject matter includes the Greek god of wine, Dionysos, and mythical companions. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 205157 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/BB97E416-B684-409D-A6C2-C8CBBD640910 Lee, Sherman E. "A Cup by Douris." American Journal of Archaeology 58, no. 3 (1954): 230, pll. 41-42. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 28 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n20 Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. page number: Mentioned: p. 3; reproduced: p. 4; Plate 7 url: https://archive.org/details/ClassicalArt/page/n7 Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd Ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. page number: P. 436, no. 111 (Douris). url: Boulter, C. G. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, USA Fasc. 15 (Cleveland Museum of Art fasc. 1). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. page number: P. 24, pll. 37-38. url: Moon, Warren G. and Louise Berge. Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979. page number: Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 188-189, cat. 106 url: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0045%3Aentry%3D106 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 16, no. 18 url: Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. page number: Reproduced: p. 337, figs. 18-19 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 Elston, Maya. "Ancient Repairs of Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 18 (1990): 53-68. page number: Ill. p. 59, Fig. 12. url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4166600 Buitron-Oliver, Diana. Douris: A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1995. page number: P. 87, cat. E,7 (Painter of London E 55) url: Clark, Andrew J., Maya Elston, and Mary Louise Hart. Understanding Greek Vases: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002. page number: Referenced and illustrated, pp. 26-27, Fig. 14. url: Pevnick, Seth. “Replication and Reinterpretation, Old and New.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 25. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 25. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.718/1915.718_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.718/1915.718_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.718/1915.718_full.tif