| Collection: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| Summary: | Interior: symposium, two men on a couch. |
| Ware: | Attic Red Figure |
| Painter: | Attributed to the Proto-Panaetian Group |
| Context: | From Orvieto |
| Date: | ca. 510 BC - ca. 500 BC |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.09 m., D. 0.25 m. |
| Primary Citation: | |
| Shape: | Kylix |
| Beazley Number: | 203247 |
| Region: | Etruria |
| Period: | Late Archaic |
Decoration Description:
Tondo: symposium scene. A man and a youth share a couch; the man plays the aulos, while the youth vomits. The man leans back on a wineskin which serves as a cushion. His legs are raised and sprawled out, his left leg in a characteristic frontal position. He sits on a short wrap which hangs over his thigh. He has a short, scraggly beard, and his hair is thinning and receding. The youth sits frontally, legs spread, with one foot on the couch and the other on the ground. He supports himself with his right hand on his right knee and his left on his right thigh. His right foot is foreshortened. A wrap hangs over his thighs. On the ground in front of them is a pair of boots, and the flute-case and mouthpiece hang on the wall behind them. The drawing is contoured with relief lines, and the outline of the hair is incised, except at the nape of the youth where it is reserved. Red is used for the wreaths, the cord of the mouthpiece-box, and the vomited wine.
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Collection History:
Formerly in the Bourguignon collection at Naples
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