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Drinking cup (kylix) depicting a man and a warrior-acrobat

about 530 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Black Figure
DimensionsHeight: 6.8 cm (2 11/16 in.); diameter: 17.6 cm (6 15/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Charles S. Lipson
Accession number67.861
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVases
ProvenanceApril 4, 1966, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 157, sold for £90 to "Harrison.". 1967, D. J. Crowther, Ltd., London [see note 1]; sold by Crowther to Charles S. Lipson (dealer), Boston; 1967, gift of Charles S. Lipson to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1967)

NOTES:
[1] D. J. Crowther, Ltd., Coins of the World, no. 1 (1967), cat. no. 9.
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