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