The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 12, 2024
Black-Figure Kotyle (Drinking Cup): Animal Friezes
600s–500s BCE, with modern painting and incision
attributed to Shoe Lane Painter
(Greek, early-mid 1900s)
Overall: 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.)
Gift of J. H. Wade 1924.873
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Although the body of this cup is ancient, its handles and figural decoration are modern.Description
This vessel began as an authentic drinking cup in the ancient Greek city of Corinth. Originally bearing no figural decoration, it was given new handles and animal friezes in a style recalling that of ancient Corinthian artists. The modern decorator was prolific enough that scholars have recognized their hand, coining the name “Shoe Lane Painter” after a street in Athens where many such vases were sold.- ?-1924Feuardent Freres, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art1924-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- R. H. “A Note on Greek Design: Recent Accessions of Pottery.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 10 (December 1924): 198–199. Mentioned: p. 198-199 www.jstor.orgAmyx, Darrell A. Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. p. 280, A3
- Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
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