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Column krater (Lucanian red-figure ware)

ITALY, Lucania, THE AMYKOS PAINTER (attributed to)
Column krater (Lucanian red-figure ware)
 420 BCE-400 BCE

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
42.8 × 40.8 × 35.0 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1977
© Public Domain

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Gallery location
18th Century Decorative Arts - Great Hall Costume Corridor
Level 2, NGV International

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Lucania, Italy

Accession Number
D150-1977

Department
Antiquities

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited

Physical description
Large open vessel with globular/ovoid body, short thick neck below a flat rim, with twin columnar handles rising from the shoulder to plates extending from the rim. On the edge of the rim is a band of laurel. On the neck of Side A, a panel of ivy pattern. On the top of the rim, ivy pattern. Side A: two pairs of figures, a draped female facing a youth, naked except for drapery over his arm. These are palaestra scenes. Side B: two pairs of draped youths facing each other, less carefully drawn.

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