from THETIS cabinet (one-of-a-kind)
Black-figure skyphos with Dionysiac scene, Archaic Period, ca. 520–500 BCE.
Two figures surge across the terracotta ground of this lively skyphos — satyrs or komasts caught mid-revel, arms outstretched, bodies tilted with the particular abandon of the Dionysiac world.
The vessel's distinctive pairing of handles — one horizontal, one vertical — gives it an immediacy in the hand that a symmetrical cup lacks. The black-glazed interior and foot anchor the warm terracotta body, the figures reading crisp and clear against the ground.
made in May 2013
Dimensions H: 9cm, max L: 15cm, rim D: 9cm