Terracotta Kylix Attributed to Onesimos in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2008

Terracotta Kylix (drinking cup)
Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 490 BC
Attributed to Onesimos
Interior, groom with horse

Accession # 1989.281.71

It is rare in black-figure to find representations of a man and a horse as intimate as this one. A black groom is in the process of currying the horse tethered to the perforated fixture at the right of the tondo. On the wall hangs a whisk broom. The horse is restive; the young man leans his arm firmly on its back and goes about his business.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.