Column Krater (Mixing Bowl) (460-450 BCE): Artwork and History

Column Krater (Mixing Bowl) (460-450 BCE) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Attributed to the Florence Painter Greek; Athens.

The work and its context

The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:

On the front of this vase are four youths: the centre pair younger, tightly wrapped in himatia, the flankers, older, that on the left holding a stick, on the right a scraper. Hung up between the pairs is a large sponge (no sign of an aryballos). On the reverse are three youths in himatia. On the left, one faces to the right and gestures with his right hand; the one in the centre faces right but makes no gesture; that on the right faces left seems to move forward and gestures with his right hand. The figured scenes are framed on either side by a double row of blobs, below by a red line and above by a frieze of tongues. The front of the neck is decorated with a frieze of linked elongated buds; the back is undecorated. On the edge of the rim is a double row of blobs and on the top a frieze of linked lotus buds, as on the neck, with a palmette complex on both handle plates.

Object facts

• Title: Column Krater (Mixing Bowl)
• Date: 460-450 BCE
• Artist attribution: Attributed to the Florence Painter Greek; Athens
• Place of origin: Greece
• Medium: terracotta, red-figure
• Dimensions: 41.3 × 34.9 × 28.6 cm (16 1/4 × 13 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.)
• Type: Vessel
• Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
• Reference number: 1929.699

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson

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