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Eye Cup
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Interior: Gorgoneion, drawn in outline, with irises and lips in added white, the tongue and hair in added red; Exterior: Quadripartite with two eye-areas and two handle-areas. In between each set of large eyes is a rudimentary nose. Between the eyebrows is a teardrop-shaped mark flanked by dots; another dot above the nose. The irises are painted white. Nude komasts flank each pair of eyes near the handles. All but one are beardless and all have red hair. Beneath each handle is an inverted lotus bud with dots. A rounded fillet separates the bowl of the kylix from its pedestalled foot. Condition: One piece of rim broken off and repaired; otherwise intact.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Joseph Clark Hoppin Purchased in Athens 1897 Bequest to Fogg Art Museum 1925.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Title: Eye Cup
Description:
Interior: Gorgoneion, drawn in outline, with irises and lips in added white, the tongue and hair in added red; Exterior: Quadripartite with two eye-areas and two handle-areas.
In between each set of large eyes is a rudimentary nose.
Between the eyebrows is a teardrop-shaped mark flanked by dots; another dot above the nose.
The irises are painted white.
Nude komasts flank each pair of eyes near the handles.
All but one are beardless and all have red hair.
Beneath each handle is an inverted lotus bud with dots.
A rounded fillet separates the bowl of the kylix from its pedestalled foot.
Condition: One piece of rim broken off and repaired; otherwise intact.
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