proto type A cup
proto type A cup
Stemmed cup with a deep lipless bowl, almost hemispherical in shape.
Shape: Spreading foot and low, broad stem like a Droop cup, but with a wide fillet at the junction of the stem and the bowl. The bowl returns to the form of the Merrythought cup.
History: Among the painters of the Proto A cups, Lydos is one artist of note, although credited with only three cups of this shape.
- Kylix
- Droop cup
- Merrythought cup
- Band cup
- Cassel cup
- Head cup
- Komast cup
- Kyathos cup
- Lip cup
- Mastos cup
- Siana cup
- Stemless cup
- Type A cup