Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl)

: Attributed to the Painter of New York GR 1000

Period:: Late Classical

Date:: ca. 350–325 B.C.

Culture:: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

Medium:: Terracotta; red-figure

Dimensions:: H. 15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm)

Classification:: Vases

Credit Line:: Purchase by subscription, 1896

Accession Number:: 96.18.25

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 161

Obverse, two Oscan warriors and two women
Reverse, three youths

Like the skyphos nearby (91.1.444), this piece represents Cumaean Campanian vase-painting. The articulation of the figures, their drapery, and their attributes are colorful and slightly awkward.

Bandinelli, Ranuccio Bianchi. 1958. Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale, Vol. 5. p. 447, fig. 580, Rome: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.

Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome. no. 186, pp. 162, 439, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Timelines
Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.

Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome