Krater (mixing bowl) with Nike and an athlete
Artist:
Attributed to the Amykos Painter
Culture: South Italian
Date: ca. 420-410 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta, red-figure technique
Dimensions:
height: 12 13/16 in. (32.6 cm)
diameter of mouth: 13 in. (33 cm)
diameter of foot: 5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm)
height of foot: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.10.1
Provenance: Christie's, London, Nov. 26, 1980, lot 274; sold, Christie's, London, Dec. 12, 1984, lot 121 to Charles Ede, Ltd., London; sold by Charles Ede to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
Published References
Christie's London, 26 Nov 1980, lot 274
A. D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Suppl. 3 (London, 1983) 14, no. 159a, pl. II.1
Christie's London, 12 Dec 1984, lot 121
Charles Ede Ltd. London, inv. 2235, "Greek Pottery from South Italy," no. 2
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picon, and G.D. Scott, III, ed., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) pp. 226-7, no. 113
M. Söldner, Bios Eudaimon. Zur Ikonographie des Menschen in der rotfigurigen Vasenmalerei Unteritaliens: Die Bilder aus Lukanien (Bibliopolis 2007), 80, fig. 107.
Label Text
Side A: Palaestra scene with a woman, Nike, and a nude athlete
Side B: Three youths
(Jessica Powers 2008)
Side B: Three youths
(Jessica Powers 2008)
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