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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1970.108
People
Attributed to The Christie Painter, Greek (active 440 - 430 BCE)
Title
Bell Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Revelers (Komos); Draped Youths
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 430 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
Period
Classical period, High
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/289082

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Red-figure
Dimensions
31 cm (12 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ruth Steele Brooks, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1970.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Beazley Archive Database #213589

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Ruth Steele Brooks
Accession Year
1970
Object Number
1970.108
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Intact, red-figure bell krater. On side A: Revelers (Komos). Three beardless revellers walk to the right carrying a walking stick, double flute, and torch, respectively. Each figure wears a chlamys over his shoulders and a filet on the head.

On side B: three draped youths. conversing youths draped in mantle, one with walking stick. On the left, two youth stand and face right, the second holding a staff. On the far right, a youth faces left, reaching his hand forward. All three figures wear a floor-length himation. A pair of jumping weights are suspended in the field.

On both sides, a groundline of meander alternating with saltires. A band of laurel wreath decorates the lip and egg-and-dart surrounding each handle.
Commentary
This vessel is attributed to The Christie Painter, a member of the group of Polygnotos, active in the mid-late fifth century BCE. Like the Polygnotos Painter, the Christie Painter excels at naturalistic and fluid figures, seen here in the figures's graceful movement and lifelike gestures.

Publication History

  • E.H. Dohan, A Bell-Krater by the Christie Painter, The University Museum Bulletin, University of Pennsylvania (University of Pennseylvania, 1936), 6, no. 4, pp. 126-128, pl. VII
  • J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1963), 1047.20
  • Diana M. Buitron, Attic Vase Painting in New England Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 128-129, no. 71
  • Thomas Carpenter, Thomas Mannack, and Melanie Mendonca, ed., Beazley addenda : additional references to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, 1989), p. 321

Exhibition History

  • Attic Vase Painting in New England Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/01/1972 - 04/05/1972

Verification Level

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