Decorated on side A with a scene of two armoured hoplites wearing helmets and greaves and holding spears and shields, flanking a draped male figure seated on a folding stool....
Decorated on side A with a scene of two armoured hoplites wearing helmets and greaves and holding spears and shields, flanking a draped male figure seated on a folding stool. There are large apotropaic eyes under the handles. Side B shows the god Dionysus seated on a stool and holding a kantharos, flanked by a Maenad on the right and a satyr on the left. With rays emanating from the foot and linked buds around the rim.
Collection of the Earls of Portsmouth, of Hurstbourne Park near Whitchurch and Farleigh Wallop, Hampshire, acquired before 2000. The krater was possibly originally acquired by John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth (1690 - 1762) during his Grand Tour in 1710 With Charles Ede Limited, 2002 English private collection, acquired from the above
Literature
The Mikra Karaburun Group predominantly painted small column kraters. It is so named after the name vase of the group found in the necropolis of Mikra Karaburun, near Salonica. For further discussion of the group see J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 156.
There is a very similar krater, also attributed to the Mikra Karaburun group, now in the Museo Nazionale Tarquiniese (inv. no. RC2837) with apotropaic eyes, warriors on one side and Dionysus between two satyrs on the other. See Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 8183: C. Tronchetti, Ceramica attica a figure nere, materiale del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Tarquinia, V, Rome, 1983, pls. 57 - 58. For other parallels, see Beazley Archive Pottery Database nos. 7387; 8827; 351163.