Greek
A Corinthian black-figure pottery krater, Early 6th century BC
Pottery
Height: 25.4 cm
Further images
Each side decorated with a central swan with curving neck flanked by two griffins, a bird under each curved handle, rosettes in the field, the lower body black glazed with...
Each side decorated with a central swan with curving neck flanked by two griffins, a bird under each curved handle, rosettes in the field, the lower body black glazed with encircling narrow white and purple bands, the horizontal rim with short diagonal zigzigs, details incised and in added purple
Provenance
With Charles Ede Limited, London, 1997 (Corinthian Pottery Catalogue X, 1997, no. 1)Christie's, London, 12 April 2000, lot 174
Private collection, France
Literature
This is an earlier form of column krater, using wedges to connect the handles to the rim and belongs to Bakir's First Group. For further discussion see T. Bakir, Der Kolonettenkrater in Korinth und Attica zwischen 625 und 550 v. Chr., Würzburg, 1974.For a similar form in Altenburg, Staatliches Lindenau-Museum no. 175 see Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Altenburg, Staatliches Lindenau-Museum, 1, 9-10, pls. 787-788, 2.1-2, 3.1-2. For a similarly-decorated krater, cf. J. Chamay and J-L. Maier, Céramiques Corinthiennes, Geneva, 1984, pp. 44-45.