A CORINTHIAN BLACK-FIGURE COLUMN KRATER

CIRCA 590 B.C.

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A CORINTHIAN BLACK-FIGURE COLUMN KRATER
CIRCA 590 B.C.
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, repaired
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high

Lot Essay

This is an early form of column krater with wedges connecting the tops of the handles to the rim; this was superseded by the use of rectangular plates extending from the rim and bridging over the handles, cf. J. Chamay and J-L. Maier, Céramiques corinthiennes, Geneva, 1984, pp. 44-45 for the latter with similar decoration to the krater above.

A Thermoluminescence Analysis Report from Oxford, no. 581y53, accompanies the above lot.

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