The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Art Object

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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

Period:: Late Classical
Date:: early 4th century B.C.
Culture:: Greek, Boeotian
Medium:: Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:: H. 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm); diameter 9 11/16 in. (24.6 cm)
Classification:: Vases
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1957
Accession Number:: 57.11.4

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 171

Description

Obverse and reverse, quadriga (four-horse chariot)

The scenes are excerpts from the myth of the Judgment of Paris. Unusually, they show two of the goddesses arriving for the event. One of the ladies is clearly identifiable as Athena.
References

Bothmer, Dietrich von. 1962. "Painted Greek Vases." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 21(1): p. 10, fig. 11.
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What
Clay (23,649)

Vessels (21,921)

Vases (8,895)

Terracotta (8,373)

Kraters (282)

Calyx kraters (39)
Where
Europe (148,587)

Greece (6,287)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,148)
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Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.