Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Satyrs Pursuing Maenads (440–430 BCE): Art, History and Details

Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Satyrs Pursuing Maenads (440–430 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Naples Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 450–430 BCE).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Two satyr-maenad pairs rush across this vase, similar but not identical to one another. The leading satyr is balding and infibulated, the trailing one more hirsute; the leading maenad carries a thyrsos, the trailing one two torches. On the reverse, a stock scene appears, with three youths standing, as if in conversation.

Object facts

• Title: Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Satyrs Pursuing Maenads
• Date: 440–430 BCE
• Creator attribution: Naples Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 450–430 BCE)
• Culture: Greek, Attic
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Overall: 41.5 cm (16 5/16 in.)
• Collection: GR - Greek
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1924.533

A detail from the museum

The column krater takes its name from the column-like struts supporting the handles and rim.

Collection credit

Gift of J. H. Wade

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
• Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
• Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.

View the collection record

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