Drinking cup (kantharos)
About A.D. 1 to 30
Place of ManufactureCentral Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, thin-walled ware
DimensionsH x Diameter (with handles) 7.6 x 15.6 Diameter cm (3 x 6 1/8 Diameter in.)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. William de Forest Thomson, by exchange
Accession number2000.1014
On View
Not on viewClassificationsVessels
Collections
ProvenanceBy the 1970s: said to have been in the C.A. collection, Geneva, formed in the 1970s; by 2000: with Jean-David Cahn AG, auction 2, Hotel Hilton Basel, Salon des Nations, Aeschengraben 31, Basel, Switzerland, June 26, lot 123; purchased at Cahn auction by Royal-Athena Galleries, 153 East 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022; purchased by MFA from Royal-Athena Galleries, December 13, 2000
about 150–50 B.C.
A.D. 14–50
about 2600 B.C.
Late 1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.
about 550 B.C.
about 700–475 B.C.
about 600–475 B.C.
about 700–600 B.C.
