- Museum number
- 1861,0425.51
- Description
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Pedestalled pottery krater.
Clay: pale brown clay, white grits, semilustrous brown-black paint.
Shape: short everted lip, flat above, deep hemispherical body, high flaring pedestal with ridges on the stem; bucranium stirrup handles.
Decoration: Dark ground. Lip: groups of bars on outer edge, paint below. Between handles, central meander with four ancillaries above and four below: dogtooth, latticed lozenge chain, gear pattern, latticed lozenge chain. At each side, columns of meander between stars, latticed lozenges, chevrons near handles. On foot below ribs, narrow zone of dogtooth. Handles: bars on stirrups, paint on bucrania.
- Production date
- 780BC-750BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 47 centimetres (of rim)
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Height: 55.50 centimetres
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Width: 58 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- CVA:
An unusually close Rhodian copy of an Attic shape: cf. Ker. V.1, 223, pl. 29, no. 290 from the MG II grave 22 (= GGP pl. 5f). Less elaborate, and slightly later, are three Atticising kraters from the Exochi cemetery: Johansen, 65-6, fig. 133, Y 1 (still MG II); 28-9, fig. 61, D 1 and 46, fig. 103, M 1 (both early LG).
Bibliography: GGP 269, 272, pl. 61e.
- Location
- On display (G13/dc1)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1990 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.92
1991 5 Jan-20 Feb, Japan, Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.92
1991 9 Mar-7 May, Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.92
- Condition
- Complete, mended.
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1861,0425.51