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Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Apollo and Goddesses with Chariot (A); Komos (Revel) (B)

c. 470–460 BCE

attributed to Cleveland Painter

(name vase; Greek, Attic, active c. 470–460 BCE)
Culture
Greek, Attic
Medium
ceramic
Measurements
Overall: 56.5 cm (22 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1930.104
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Location
102B Greek
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Did You Know?

The revelers on this vessel dance to the music of the barbiton, a stringed instrument associated with leisure and luxury.

Description

Since this column-krater is the most important of 12 vases painted by a Greek artist whose name is unknown, the great English vase expert, Sir John D. Beazley, named him (or her) the Cleveland Painter, after our city. Other vases by the Cleveland Painter are now in New York, Vienna, Paris, and Copenhagen, as well as museums in Greece and Italy. The chariot scene on the main side of the vessel is a divine one, as indicated by the presence of Apollo, identified by his lyre and laurel wreath. With him are three goddesses, probably his sister Artemis (facing him), together with Hera (wearing a crown and holding a scepter and libation dish), and Hebe, the daughter of Zeus and Hera, on her way to meet her future husband, Herakles.
Black ceramic column krater, a mixing vessel with a round body, thinner neck, and flared lip, vertical handles connecting the lip to the vessel body. A central scene in orange depicts a person riding in a horse-drawn chariot with three more people standing alongside. Outlined in fine, black lines, they all wear floor-length pleated garments and a wrap going over one shoulder. Around the lip of the vessel runs a stylized palm leaf-like pattern.

Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Apollo and Goddesses with Chariot (A); Komos (Revel) (B)

c. 470–460 BCE

Cleveland Painter

(name vase; Greek, Attic, active c. 470–460 BCE)
Greek, Attic

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