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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1968.13
Title
Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Symposium; Cavalcade
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 585 BCE-575 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Corinth (Corinthia)
Period
Archaic period
Culture
Greek
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/289240

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta; orange yellow clay
Technique
Black-figure
Dimensions
36.8 cm h x 31.2 cm diam (40.6 cm diam with handles) (14 1/2 x 12 5/16 in.; 16 in. diam with handles)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[A. Emmerich Gallery, Art of the Ancients: Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, Feb. 7-Mar. 13, 1968, lot 3] sold; to Frederick M. Watkins, 1968, partial gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, David M. Robinson Fund and Gift of Frederick M. Watkins
Accession Year
1968
Object Number
1968.13
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Side A: Symposium; Side B: Cavalcade; Handle zone: Griffin-birds; Handle plates: Bearded male busts in profile.

Publication History

  • David Gordon Mitten and Suzannah F. Doeringer, "A Corinthian Krater in the Fogg Art Museum", Fogg Art Museum Acquisitions, 1968 (1968), pp. 33-43, pp. 33-43, figs. 1-4
  • The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973)
  • David Gordon Mitten and Amy Brauer, Dialogue with Antiquity, The Curatorial Achievement of George M. A. Hanfmann, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1982), p. 10, no. 5.

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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