Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
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.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
- Artist: Attributed to the manner of the Göttingen Painter
- Period: Late Archaic
- Date: ca. 500 BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; red-figure, white-ground
- Dimensions: Height: 13 7/16 in. (34.2 cm)
Diameter: 10 13/16 in. (27.5 cm)
Width (with handles): 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm) - Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.462
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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