bowl(?);
krater(?)
- Museum number
- 1894,1101.31
- Description
-
Body fragment of a large Late Geometric Euboean or Cycladic pottery bowl or krater decorated with horse and geometric designs; wheel-made; the surviving part of the scene shows the front part of a schematically-drawn horse with its head lowered, as if grazing, framed in a panel by geometric motifs; dotted rosettes in the field around the animal.
- Production date
- 730 BC-720 BC
- Dimensions
-
Height: 8 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Coldstream 1968, 173 no. 6; then Coldstream 1971, 5 and 8 and pl. II,c. This is a late piece from the Cesnola Workshop, probably by the same hand as a krater (no. 3284) now in the Allard Pierson Museum of Amsterdam, fully published and discussed Crielaard (1990, 1-9 and figs 1-6).
Bibliography:
Coldstream J.N. 1968, Greek Geometric pottery (London).
Coldstream J.N. 1971, 'The Cesnola Painter: A change of address', BICS 18, 1-15.
Crielaard J.P. 1990, 'Some Euboean and related pottery in Amsterdam', BABesch 65 (1990), 1-12.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Body fragment; worn; slip and paint flaking.
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1894,1101.31
