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| Keywords: Stieglitz Painter - Kylix with Youths and Women - Walters 4890 - Side A Detail.jpg This red-figure kylix depicts a youth or a woman to the left on the tondo The figure wears a chiton and mantle and stands before a pillar A sakkos hangs on the right On the front are two women and a youth On the left a woman stands frontally looking right She holds out both hands gesturing to another woman on the far right who stands before a pillar facing left right arm extended Both wear a chiton mantle and sakkos In the center is a mantled youth who stands in profile to the right On the back three youths are depicted The one on the left stands frontally while looking right Above on the left is an ivy leaf A second mantled youth stands in profile to the right before a pillar between him and the third mantled youth who faces left A flute case hangs between the first and second youths The mantles of all three are pulled up around their necks; the last's extends over part of his head The sex of the figure in the tondo is unclear and perhaps the painter himself forgot or changed his mind halfway through completing the figure The dress and sakkos speak in favor of a woman the head and stele for a youth ca 450 BC Classical terracotta H with handles 3 9/16 x Diam with handles 11 3/4 in 9 x 29 8 cm ; Diam at mouth cm 22 6 ; Diam at foot cm 8 7 accession number 48 90 24497 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome 1897 cat no 240 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek red-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Stieglitz Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update | ||||
