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Column Krater (Mixing Bowl)

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Date:

460-450 BCE

Artist:

Attributed to the Florence Painter
Greek; Athens

About this artwork

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

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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