Mastos with Combat Scenes

ca. 530 BCE (Archaic)

18.2 cm 9.3 cm 13.2 cm

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This shape of drinking-cup is called a "mastos" and resembles a woman's breast. On the front, a soldier whose nudity signifies heroic status advances against two warriors dressed in short tunics; two heralds watch from either side. On the back, a nude warrior confronts a cloth...

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Sale, Catalogue des tableaux anciens, tableaux modernes, objets d'art et de haute curiosit'e, importantes tapisseries : composant la collection Engel-Gros, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 30 May-1 June 1921, no. 38 [illust.]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1921, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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