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Latin American Art
Two joining fragments from a calyx krater (mixing bowl) depicting Dionysos and Ariadne on donkeys (A); satyrs and maenads (B),
ca. 520–500 BCE
Attributed to the Acheloos Painter
Greek, Attic
Archaic Period, ca. 600–480 BCE
1997-68 a-c
Information
Title
Two joining fragments from a calyx krater (mixing bowl) depicting Dionysos and Ariadne on donkeys (A); satyrs and maenads (B)
Dates
ca. 520–500 BCE
Maker
Attributed to the Acheloos Painter
Medium
Black-figure ceramic
Dimensions
a. preserved: 21.0 x 32.5 x 11.2 cm (8 1/4 x 12 13/16 x 4 7/16 in.)
b. preserved: 32.6 x 35.0 x 15.0 cm (12 13/16 x 13 3/4 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Emily Townsend Vermeule, honorary degree holder of the Class of 1989, and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, in memory of Alphaeus Hyatt Mayor, Class of 1922, George Rodney Meneely, Class of 1933, and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule, Jr., Class of 1917
Object Number
1997-68 a-c
Place Made
Europe, Greece, Athens
Culture
Period
Type
Materials
Given to the Museum by Emily Townsend Vermeule and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III in 1997
- Diana M. Buitron, Attic vase paintings in New England collections, (Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum Harvard University, 1972)., p. 126-27; cat. no. 70
- Miriam Braverman, The classical shape: decorated pottery of the ancient world, (Concord, NH: St. Paul's School, 1984)., cat. no. 16
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K. Huber, "Werkstattgesellen-Zur Production früher Kelchkratere," Irma Wehgartner, ed., Euphronios und Seine Zeit, (Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung, 1992).
, p. 71; cat. no. 48 - "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1997," in "A Window into Collecting American Folk Art: The Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 164-208., pp. 205–206
