D. Vassilopou Pottery Dionysos & Kantharos Demitasse Tea Cup and Saucer

Vintage hand-painted by D. Vassilopoulos Pottery from Greece. The cup depicts Dionysos, the god of wine, holding a kantharos, a type of wine cup favored by him and the hero Herakles. The saucer has a diameter of 4.75 inches, and the demitasse is 2.125 inches tall and 2 inches in diameter. Hand-painted on the bottom of cup is "Fig 138 Dionysos holding the kantharos about 530 BC, NY Museum."