photo: Bruce M. White
On view
Latin American Art
Fragments of a kylix (drinking cup) depicting Hermes with a bull (interior); Apollo recovering his cows (A); Maia and the baby Hermes (B),
ca. 490–480 BCE
attributed to the potter Brygos and to the Brygos Painter
Greek, Attic
Archaic Period, ca. 600–480 BCE
y1990-2
Information
Title
Fragments of a kylix (drinking cup) depicting Hermes with a bull (interior); Apollo recovering his cows (A); Maia and the baby Hermes (B)
Dates
ca. 490–480 BCE
Maker
attributed to the potter Brygos and to the Brygos Painter
Medium
Red-figure ceramic
Dimensions
h. of offset lip 2.8 cm x w. with handles 40.9 cm x pres. diam. 33.2 cm (1 1/8 x 16 1/8 x 13 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
Object Number
y1990-2
Place Made
Europe, Greece, Athens
Inscription
See accession card for reproduction of interior inscription.;
Culture
Period
One fragment, with the infant Hermes, purchased from Galerie Nefer, Zürich. The other fragments were purchased from Robin Symes, London, including one fragment (90-2a) that was omitted by mistake and subsequently delivered in January 1993.
Fragments of a Red-figure Cup (Kylix) Type B: I, Hermes with Bull (or Heifer?); A, Apollo Recovers His Cattle; B, Maia and the Infant Hermes
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1990," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 50, no. 1 (1991): p. 16-69., p. 37 (illus.)
- J. Michael Padgett, et. al,The Berlin Painter and his world: Athenian vase-painting in the early fifth century B.C., (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2017), cat. no. 57
