Kassel Cup

Kassel- shells, shells and even Kassel Kassel group of shells are a special group of Attic Little-master cups, which were manufactured in the decades 540-520 BC in Athens.

The Kassel- shells are the shells band quite close, but are flat and mostly relatively small. Unlike the strip shells are also decorated edge and the outer pelvic floor. Lip and body of the shells are mostly decorated with simple band patterns. In general, the tabs on the lip and radiation on the rest of the body. Some painters draw silhouetted figures in the handle zone, overall there are figurative images but the exception. In particular, the ornaments can connect to the Sianaschalen guess. Fries outline, decorative elements and unusual for the black-figure style waiver of the carvings speak of a connection between Attic and Ionic vase painting.

Your name received the Kassel- shells after the former one repository in 1898 led by John Boehlau excavations found in Samos shell fragment that was preserved until it was destroyed during a fire in the museum basement in the wake of World War II in the antiquities collection of Kassel.