VesselsGreek5th century BCE

Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Youth Playing a Lyre

c. 490-470 BCE

Artists

The Harrow PainterArtist

Description

Side A: In the center a youth wrapped in a mantle, seated to right on a square object holding in his left a lyre the strings of which are now missing but were originallly applied in white as shown by a few traces. Facing him a bearded man to left entirely wrapped in his mantle and leaning on a staff. At the left a second youth clad in a cloak which leaves his right arm and shoulder bare, holding a staff in his right. In the field a pair of halteres, a sponge and a strigil. Side B: Bearded man with staff and youth facing each other, both entirely wrapped in their cloaks. In the field a sponge. Hair outlines reserved in all figures. On outer edge of rim ivy leaf band. On neck, A, lotus bud chain with points downwards. Pictures framed by a tongue pattern above, ivy leaves at sides. On base, rays. Execution fair, that of A superior to that of B. Rim broken and repaired.

Classification

Vessels

Technique

Red-figure

Medium

Terracotta; pale reddish clay, black paint fired reddish-brown

Culture

Greek

Period

Archaic period, Late, to Early Classical

Century

5th century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

body: 30.8 x 25.1 cm (12 1/8 x 9 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Excavated from Tomb V, Poggio Sommavilla, Italy by Fausto Benedetti, Italy (1896-1897), sold; to Joseph Clark Hoppin, Boston (1897-1925), bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1925.