Centrally placed on the bowl of the cup, just below the offset lip, is a reserved rectangular panel, the so-called "patch", which contains the figure of a bull striding to right. With only slight variation in detail, principally in the use of added white, the animal is repeated on both sides of the vase's exterior, the panels standing proud against an all-black ground. This type of cup is clearly experimental and short-lived. To date, there are only thirteen recorded examples, the majority small and lipped, which are decorated in this innovative fashion, with subject matter that is remarkably varied. The style is comparable to that of little-master lip-cups and band-cups produced in Athens in the decades ca. 560-540 B.C. A narrow band in added red overlies both the exterior edge of the lip and its offset just above the figured patches. Added red for the necks of each bull; added white for the underbelly and genitals of one bull, for the mottling of the hide of the other. The cup's interior is all-black. Glaze on the upper half of one side has in part misfired greenish. Reassembled with minor losses, principally to the black-glazed body, made good. The left arm of one handle, and a section of the cups's wall about the right root of the same, are restored.