Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Attributed to the manner of the Göttingen Painter

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

On the body, obverse, Herakles and Kyknos
Reverse, two revelers
On the neck, obverse, on white-ground, hunters and hounds
On the topside of the lip, animals

The transition from black-figure to red-figure among Athenian artists was neither rapid nor orderly. While the Göttingen Painter used the new technique for the main subjects, he decorated the neck of the obverse in the outmoded combination of silhouette on white-ground. On the lip, he reverted to a practice favored during the second quarter of the sixth century B.C. by black-figure painters.

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), Attributed to the manner of the Göttingen Painter, Terracotta, Greek, Attic

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