Red-Figure Stamnos (Mixing/Storage Vessel): Komos (Musicians and Revelers) (c. 435–425 BCE): Art, History and Details

Red-Figure Stamnos (Mixing/Storage Vessel): Komos (Musicians and Revelers) (c. 435–425 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Kleophon Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 440–410 BCE).

The work and its context

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

Four lively figures move to the right across the front side of this stamnos, a vase used for storing and mixing wine. First comes a finely dressed woman playing the pipes, followed by three male figures, all nearly nude. The bearded one holds a drinking cup and reaches back, perhaps dancing, while the last in line concentrates on the music of his lyre.

Object facts

• Title: Red-Figure Stamnos (Mixing/Storage Vessel): Komos (Musicians and Revelers)
• Date: c. 435–425 BCE
• Creator attribution: Kleophon Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 440–410 BCE)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Ceramic
• Dimensions: height: 40.4 cm (15 7/8 in.); Diameter of foot: 13.8 cm (5 7/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.); width with handles: 39 cm (15 3/8 in.)
• Collection: GR - Greek
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 2023.3

A detail from the museum

The Athenian stamnos, a shape favored by the Etruscans, was made primarily for export.

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive Pottery Database (BAPD), University of Oxford Classical Art Research Centre.
• Fifth Avenue Art Galleries (New York, N.Y.), and Henri de Morgan. Catalogue of [His Selection of] Greek Vases: Also Antique Iridescent Glass Cameos Intaglios and Silver Coins. New York: Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 1909.
• Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.

View the collection record

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