Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Attributed to the manner of the Göttingen Painter
There was a transition from black-figure to red-figure vase painting among Athenian artists at the end of the sixth century bce, but the shift was gradual. Moore was likely interested in the combination of different techniques that appears on this small column-krater from that period, as well as its classical form. The potter used the red-figure technique for the primary scenes: the combat between Herakles and Kyknos, the son of Ares who robbed travelers on their way to Delphi, on one side of the vase, and two merrymaking youths on the other. On the neck, however, the artist chose to depict the hounds and youths brandishing clubs in black silhouette on white ground.
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