Collection Online
Medium
earthenware
Measurements
14.0 × 43.3 × 34.2 cm
Place/s of Execution
Attica, Greece
Inscription
inscribed in tondo in Greek script: HO PAIS KALOS
Accession Number
1644-D4
Department
Antiquities
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1956
© Public Domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Gallery location
18th Century Decorative Arts - Great Hall Costume Corridor
Level 2, NGV International
Physical description
A two-handled, stemmed cup decorated in red-figure. In the tondo, circled by a lotus band is a youth, seated, and playing the two-reeded flute to a standing, draped youth, with a lyre in the field. On the exterior, music lessons. Side A: Nike crowns a successful pupil. Side B: Boy with lyre and a flute lesson. In the field, tablet, stylus, scraper, lyre, T-square, instrument case etc.. Below is a band of meander.