Volute Krater (Mixing Bowl)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

330-320 BCE

Attributed to the White Saccos Group
Greek; Apulia, Italy

On the front of this vessel, a warrior and his horse stand in a naiskos (tomb) surrounded by attendants with offerings; above them is the god Eros and on the handles male and female followers of the god Dionysos are depicted.

On the back another naiskos (tomb) is decorated with large white figures. Since the krater is a funerary vessel, these figures may be symbolic representations of the dead or they may depict marble statues of the tomb’s occupants.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Greek
Title: Volute Krater (Mixing Bowl)
Place: Apulia (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 330 BCE–320 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Dimensions: 85 × 45.2 × 36.8 cm (33 1/2 × 18 × 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Katherine K. Adler Memorial Fund
Reference Number: 1984.8
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Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 1983-84 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 47.
K. Schauenburg, “Zu zwei Krateren des Malers von Berlin F 3383,” in H.-U. Cain, H. Gabelmann and D. Salzmann (eds.), Festschrift für Nikolas Himmelmann: Beiträge zur Ikonographie und Hermaneutik (Mainz 1989), pp. 215-9, pl. 38, 1-2.

Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.

Lincoln W. Higgie, Chicago FIne Arts, Chicago, IL, by 1984; sold to the Art Institute, 1984.

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