Bell Krater / Ceramic / Glaze / Slip

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.2610
Object Name: Bell Krater
Lot: Marburg Collection
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Pottery
Materials: Ceramic; Glaze; Slip
Design Style: Red figure
Length: ;
Width: 27.7;
Height: 27.4;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;1937g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Red clay slightly paler than Attic with a good glaze. Reserved: narrow bands at the top and bottom of the rim inside and above and below the laurel wreath; ridge at juncture of body with foot; edge and underside of foot. Around the rim a laurel wreath running to the right below the figures on A and B strip of meander, interrupted at intervals by crossed squares. A: two satyrs. One on left seen in profile walking to right and playing a double flute; his companion also walks to right, but turns around to look back, holding out a drinking horn in his left hand a thyrsos in his right hand; both are bearded and nude. B: two youths. They stand facing each other and are wrapped in himatia; the one on the right has a stick in his right hand. Relief contour right side, from arm pit to mid thigh of the satyr to the right on A. Brown: linea alba, navel-pubes line, ribs, inner markings on legs, eyebrows, beards, hair curls, head of thyrsos.; Gazda: Bell krater with dancing satyrs. South Italian Greek (Paestum) Red Figure. Attributed to the Pisticci Painter. Clay.
Subjects: Two satyrs, two; youths
Verbatim Date: 440 - 430 BC
Verbatim Provenance: Italy
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Music in Roman Egypt; The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual Modern Muse; Case 29 - Roman Dining; Animals in the Kelsey: An Undergraduate Exhibit of Animals in the Ancient World; Greece vs. Rome: The Search for the classical spirit
Exhibition Curator: Wilfong, Terry; Gazda, Elaine; Alcock, Susan
Exhibition Year: 2009
Publication Title: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum; Reflections, the Image of Man; The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii : ancient ritual, modern muse
Publication Author: Van Ingen, Wilhelmina
Publication Year: 1933; 1965; 2000
Type Category: Ceramic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.2610
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2610/dscn4824.jpg

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Full citation: "Bell Krater; Ceramic; Glaze; Slip." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.2610/dscn4824.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.