Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Attributed to the manner of the Göttingen Painter 

Period:
Late Archaic
Date:
ca. 500 B.C.
Culture:
Greek, Attic
Medium:
Terracotta; red-figure, white-ground
Dimensions:
H.: 13 7/16 in. (34.1 cm)
Classification:
Vases
Credit Line:
Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
Accession Number:
91.1.462
  • Description

    On the body, obverse, Herakles and Kyknos
    Reverse, two revelers
    On the neck, obverse, on white-ground, hunters and hounds
    On the topside of the lip, animals

    The transition from black-figure to red-figure among Athenian artists was neither rapid nor orderly. While the Göttingen Painter used the new technique for the main subjects, he decorated the neck of the obverse in the outmoded combination of silhouette on white-ground. On the lip, he reverted to a practice favored during the second quarter of the sixth century B.C. by black-figure painters.

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