Calyx Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Woman at a Tree, with Dionysos and a Satyr; Woman with Eros and Two Satyrs

Artists

Description

Side A: In the center, a woman clad in a black-bordered mantle which leaves the upper part of her breast and right arm bare. Hovering over her left shoulder a nude winged Eros extending his right arm over her had. On the right, facing, sits a nude bearded figure with his mantle draped over his left arm holding a thyrsos in his left hand, his right raised as if in salutation. To the left a nude bearded Silen to right wearing an ivy wreath and extending both arms. The upper part of the Silen and the flesh surfaces (in applied white) of the woman and Eros have disappeared so that the action cannot be told with certainty. Side B: In the center a female figure full front, clad in a mantle which leaves her right shoulder and breast bare, leans against an apple? tree and raises her right arm over her head (now missing). At aher left stands a youth with head in profile, body, legs and arms full front, wearing an ivy wreath in his hear, nad mantle draped over his left shoulder the end of which he holds in his right hand while in his left he holds a thyrsos. At the woman's right a nude, bearded Silen facing right holding a thyrsos in his right hand. On the rim ovolo pattern with a lateral leaf pattern below, both encircling the entire vase. Under each picture triangular palmettes alternately inverted. Black paint filling the entire interior. Applied white is used for the flesh surfaces of both women, Eros and the apples of the tree. The hair is done in a brownish wash with the outlines reserved. Broken and repaired with a few essential parts missing. From Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. United States of America. Hoppin and Gallatin Collections by Joseph Clark Hoppin and Albert Gallatin. Libraire Ancienne Edouard Champion. Paris. U.S.A. Fascicule I, 1926, p. 11.

Dimensions

41.5 cm h x 36 cm diam. (16 5/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Joseph Clark Hoppin, Pomfret, CT (1896-1925), bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1925. NB: Said to have been purchased in Athens.