Side A: boxers

Profile: handles at sides

Side A: boxer on center left

Side A: trainer on right, upper half

Tondo: trainer, lower half, and boxer

Side A: boxer on near right

Collection: Toledo Museum of Art
Summary: Tondo: boxer and trainer. Side A: boxers; side B: javelin-throwers.
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Painter: Attributed to the Triptolemos Painter
Date: ca. 490 BC
Dimensions:

h. 13.5 cm; d. of rim 32.3 cm; w. with handles 41.0 cm; d. of foot 12.2 cm.
Primary Citation: CVA, USA 17, Toledo 1
Shape: Kylix
Period: Late Archaic

Decoration Description:

Interior: Boxer and trainer. Exterior, Side A: boxers. Side B: javelin-throwers. Graffito underneath foot: X. For detailed information on condition and description of scene, with discussion of and bibliography for iconography, see CVA, 33.

The Triptolemos Painter decorated both large vases and cups. He is connected with the cup-painter Douris by a signature, by certain aspects of subsidiary decoration and by potterwork (ARV2, 360). There is evidence that he worked for the potters Euphronios, Python, Brygos, and, in the case of the Toledo cup, for Hieron. In this cup one can see both his careless and his careful work: contrast the drawing of the meander bordering the tondo and that of his figure work. On other cups, in scenes of the palaestra, the Triptolemos Painter shows athletes jumping, athletes throwing the discus, and athletes victorious.

Graffiti:

Graffito underneath foot: X

Essay:

Moon No. 103

Collection History:

gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Sources Used:

Moon 1979, no.103, pp. 182-183

Other Bibliography:

CVA, USA 17, Toledo 1, pls. 51 and 52, pp. 32-34 (with further bibliography), figs. 8, 9, and 12.