Column Krater (Mixing Bowl)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

460-450 BCE

Attributed to the Florence Painter
Greek; Athens

On the front of this vase are four youths: the centre pair younger, tightly wrapped in himatia, the flankers, older, that on the left holding a stick, on the right a scraper. Hung up between the pairs is a large sponge (no sign of an aryballos). On the reverse are three youths in himatia. On the left, one faces to the right and gestures with his right hand; the one in the centre faces right but makes no gesture; that on the right faces left seems to move forward and gestures with his right hand.

The figured scenes are framed on either side by a double row of blobs, below by a red line and above by a frieze of tongues. The front of the neck is decorated with a frieze of linked elongated buds; the back is undecorated. On the edge of the rim is a double row of blobs and on the top a frieze of linked lotus buds, as on the neck, with a palmette complex on both handle plates.

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

Culture: Ancient Greek
Title: Column Krater (Mixing Bowl)
Place: Greece (Artist's nationality:)
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.: 460 BCE–450 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Dimensions: 41.3 × 34.9 × 28.6 cm (16 1/4 × 13 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1929.699
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Daniel Catton Rich, “Two Vases Recently Added to the Classical Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 23, 9 (December, 1929), pp. 148-149.
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 18, 31.

Charles L. Hutchinson (1854-1924) and Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson (née Frances Kinsley) (1857–1936), Chicago, from 1889 to 1929; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1929.

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