Column Krater
Object Number:
MS2465
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Attic
Provenience:
Mediterranean
Manufacture Location:
Attica
Maker:
Flying Angel Painter
Date Made:
5th century BC
Early Date:
-499
Late Date:
-400
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Ceramic
Technique:
Red Figure
Iconography:
Youths
Athlete
Running
Boxer
Description:
Two of the columns of the handles missing and a number of minor fragments. On A., neck, lotus bud chain. Panel on body is bordered above by tongue pattern, on sides by ivy. In panel, a trainer (?) and two boxers. At center, a trainer(?), with stick, back to viewer, looking back to left. At left a nude youth, holding long leather straps for wrapping his hands for boxing. At right a second nude youth also holding long leather straps for wrapping his hands for boxing. On B, same panel borders as on A. In panel, two nude youths running(?) toward right. Two of the three mouldings of the base fired chocolate brown. Ivy leaf border around rim. Lotus bud chain on top of rim; palmette on each handle plate.
Height:
40.5cm
Outside Diamater:
31.5cm
Credit Line:
Purchased at Coleman Estate Sale (Davis & Harvey); funding by Phebe A. Hearst
Bibliography:
[Book] Beazley, John D. 1963. Attic Red-figure Vase-painters. : Page/Fig./Plate: p.281, no. 27
[Book] Beazley, J. D. 1942. Attic Red-figure Vase-Painters. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 183, no. 22
[Book] Beazley, John D. 1925. Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 107
[Book] Beazley, John D. 1918. Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 59
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