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The Cockerell Cup
Artist: Dokimasia Painter (active 490 - 470 BC)
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum
Date: circa 480 BC
Materials: fired clay
Dimensions: 10 x 30.2cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £50,000 (Total: £100,000)
Vendor: Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd
Review number: 5366 (2004)
Provenance:
First recorded at Spink and Son, January 1966; Sir Christopher Cockerell; Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd.
Description:
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.
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