Skyphos (Drinking Cup)

Ancient Greek sculptorWW--410-331773

-410·terracotta, black-glaze with impressed decoration·9.2 × 22.5 × 16.2 cm (3 5/8 × 8 7/8 × 6 3/8 in.)

Gift of Philip D. Armour and Charles L. Hutchinson

Catalogue

Year: -410
Medium: terracotta, black-glaze with impressed decoration
Dimensions: 9.2 × 22.5 × 16.2 cm (3 5/8 × 8 7/8 × 6 3/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Ancient Greek sculptor

Artist

Ancient Greek sculptor

The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone: Archaic Greek sculpture, Classical and Hellenistic thereafter. At all periods there were great numbers of Greek terracotta figurines and small sculptures in metal and other materials.

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