id:			108840
accession number:	1926.514
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.514
updated:		2023-03-04 09:29:38.206000

Black-Figure Eye Cup: Iris and Satyrs (A, B); Gorgoneion (I), c. 520–510 BC. Greek, Attic. Ceramic; diameter: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1926.514

title:				Black-Figure Eye Cup: Iris and Satyrs (A, B); Gorgoneion (I)
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creation date:			c. 520–510 BC
creation date earliest:		-525
creation date latest:		-505
current location:		102B Greek
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Greek, Attic
technique:	ceramic
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Greek
type:		Ceramic
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measurements: Diameter: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Adolf Preyes, Munich, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1926
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1926-
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fun fact:
The eye cup takes its name from the large eyes on its exterior.

digital description:
Along with two large sets of eyes on its exterior, this drinking vessel also features other figures: a winged female, probably Iris, between each pair of eyes, and pairs of satyrs flanking them; a winged dolphin beneath each handle; and a frontal Gorgoneion, or face of Medusa, baring her teeth and tongue within the tondo. Although the eyes and Gorgoneion may serve to ward off evil, they also make for fluid identities while drinking, inviting drinkers to enter the mythical realm. For when tilting such cups to imbibe, drinkers confront monstrous beings while simultaneously masking their faces from others.

wall description:

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
	page number: 	BAPD 331757
	url:		http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/99A20F3C-7343-4A5C-B244-65AAB443ED89

	Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. </em>Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
	page number: 	p. 630, no. 3
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	Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
	page number: 	p. 15, Plates 22, I&3, and 20,3
	url:		http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={99A20F3C-7343-4A5C-B244-65AAB443ED89}&startRef=

	Cooney, John D. “Way Stations on the Primrose Path.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 7 (1974): 240–46.
	page number: 	Ill. Fig. 3.
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152536

	Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. <em>Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² &amp; Paralipomena. </em>Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989.
	page number: 	p. 145
	url:		

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IMAGES

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