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Terracotta bell-krater (vase for mixing wine and water)

Attributed to the Meleager Painter
ca. 390–380 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171
Obverse, satyrs and maenads
Reverse, three youths

The gentrification of the followers of Dionysos on this vase is worth noting. Whereas vases of the late sixth and the first half of the fifth centuries B.C. emphasized the irrational and animal energies of satyrs and maenads, by the turn of the fifth to the fourth century, these figures had become quite sedate.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Terracotta bell-krater (vase for mixing wine and water)
  • Artist: Attributed to the Meleager Painter
  • Period: Late Classical
  • Date: ca. 390–380 BCE
  • Culture: Greek, Attic
  • Medium: Terracotta; red-figure
  • Dimensions: H. 13 3/8 in. (34 cm)
    diameter 14 in. (35.6 cm)
  • Classification: Vases
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906
  • Object Number: 06.1021.214
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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