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Collection Online as of July 16, 2025

Black-Figure Kotyle (Drinking Cup): Chain of Women

c. 590–560 BCE, with modern repainting and reincising

attributed to Patras Painter

(Greek, Middle Corinthian)
Greek, Corinthian
ceramic
Diameter: 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.); Overall: 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1923.221
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The Patras Painter specialized in decorating drinking cups, often with chains of women.

Description

Reassembled from 34 fragments, this cup bears ancient decoration that has been made more legible through modern repainting and re-incising, or re-scratching, of the internal details of figures and rosettes. Because they are irreversible and potentially misleading, such modern interventions are no longer seen as acceptable; when sold in 1922, the cup was described as “repaired,” albeit without additional explanation.
  • ?-1922
    Vladimir Simkhovitch, sold to Brummer Gallery
    1922-1923
    Joseph Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1923-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d. #495 libmma.contentdm.oclc.org
    Anderson Galleries, Inc. Egyptian, Greek and Roman, Indian, Chinese and European Collections of Vladimir Simkhovitch. Sales Catalog, 12-14 January 1922. p. 31, lot 255.
    Amyx, Darrell A. Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. p. 188, AP4
  • Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1923.221