Art Funded
The Cockerell Cup
© Fitzwilliam Museum
Dokimasia Painter (active 490 - 470 BC)
Fitzwilliam Museum
circa 480 BC
The cup has two distinct scenes depicting the wine-god Dionysos with his satyrs and maenads. On one side the emphasis is on the preparation and serving of wine with various wine related vessels and Dionysos holding out a wine bowl to be filled by dutiful satyrs. The other side presents the after effects of wine with the satyrs chasing a maenad who flees from the embrace of one to be grabbed by another. This work was acquired with assistance from the Wolfson Foundation.
- Medium: fired clay
- Dimensions: 10 x 30.2cm
- Art Fund Grant: £50000 ( Total: £100,000)
- ArtFunded in: 2004
- Vendor: Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd
Provenance
First recorded at Spink and Son, January 1966; Sir Christopher Cockerell; Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd.
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