Terracotta kylix: band-cup (drinking cup)

Signed by Hischylos

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 155

Obverse and reverse, frontal quadriga between youths and inscription: Hischylos made [me]

The band-cup was produced concurrently with the lip-cup; the two shapes are often designated Little-Master cups owing to their small scale. The later band-cups often have more ambitious compositions than occur on lip-cups. The subject here is a quadriga, a four-horse chariot, seen from the front. Artistically, the perspective advances beyond the profile horsemen favored by Lydos.

Terracotta kylix: band-cup (drinking cup), Signed by Hischylos as potter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic

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