On view
Column krater (mixing bowl) depicting a four-horse chariot (A); three youths (B),
ca. 400 BCE
Figural panels decorate either side of this column krater: three youths stand on one side, and a quadriga moves across the other. Both the driver and passenger of this four-horse chariot wear elaborate caps with long neck flaps and forward-coiling crests, and long-sleeved patterned tunics overlaid with sleeveless gowns. The legs of the four horses are raised in unison, and the heads of three horses are in three-quarter view as they seem to draw the chariot into the air. A third male figure dressed in beautifully decorated clothes seems to run out of the scene as he turns and raises an encouraging hand. Traces of preliminary sketch lines appear throughout the image, and the artist made full use of other vase-painting techniques, including relief lines, diluted slip, added color, and applied clay pellets.
Information
ca. 400 BCE
Europe, Greece, Athens
- Jerome M. Eisenberg and F. Williamson Price, Art of the ancient world: Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Egyptian & Near Eastern antiquities: volume 11, (New York: Royal-Athena Galleries, 2008)., no. 128 (color detail on cover)
-
"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2007," in "More than one: photographs in sequence," special issue, Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 67 (2008): p. 96-119.
, p. 100 (illus.) - Adrienne Mayor, The Amazons: lives and legends of warrior women across the ancient world, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014)., p. 178; fig. 11.22; p. 460, note 15
- J. Michael Padgett, "'Whom are you calling a barbarian?': a column krater by the Suessula Painter", in ed. John H. Oakley, Athenian potters and painters: volume III, (Oxford, UK; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Oxbow Books, 2014): p. 146-154., p. 146-154
