Lidded Krater (vessel for mixing water and wine)

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Lidded Krater (vessel for mixing water and wine)

Place of OriginGreece, made in Boeotia or Italic

Dateabout 700 BCE

DimensionsH (with lid): 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm); H (without lid): 10 27/32 in. (27.4 cm); Diam (mouth): 7 17/32 in. (19.1 cm); Diam (with handles): 11 1/8 in. (28.2 cm); Diam (body): 9 7/16 in. (24.0 cm); Diam (foot): 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm); H (lid): 3 15/32 in. (8.8 cm); Diam (lid): 7 15/32 in. (19 cm)

MediumWheel-thrown, slip-decorated earthenware

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1967.132A-B

Not on View

DescriptionThe krater is intact, save for small restorations in the foot; the lid is broken and repaired. Light brown clay; black glaze partly fired red. Some glaze has flaked off. On each side, at the top, a panel containing two water birds confronted, along with filling orament. The panels are bordered by chevrons in vertical rows enclosed each side by four bands. In the handle spaces, a wavy line above and swastikas below. The edges of the handles are glazed; the outer face bears a row of short strokes. Beneath the panels the body is covered largely with a series of narrow bands; the lower part is glazed. On the pedestal is a chain of dotted lozenge pattern between bands. The underside of the foot is reserved. The upper surface of the mouth is glazed and slopes in. Outside are two narrow bands. The interior is unglazed. The knob of the lid is glazed on top. The rest of the knob and the entire lid are decorated with concentric circles which have largely flaked away. The underside is unglazed.

Published References"Catalogue of Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities also Early Islamic Pottery," London, Sotheby and Co., Nov. 11, 1963, lot no. 161.

Canciani, F., "Böotische Vasen aus dem 8 and 7 jh," Jahrbuch der Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts in Athen, 80, 1965, p. 32.

Auktion 34 Basel, Basel, Münzen und Medaillen AG, May 6, 1967, no. 87, pl. 21.

Coldstream, Nicholas, Greek Geometic Pottery, London, 1968, p. 203.

Riefstahl, Rudolph M., "Greek Vases," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 11, no. 2, 1968, repr. p. 30.

Ruckert, Anne, "Frühe Keramik Böotiens," Antike Kunst, Beiheft 10. Berne, 1976, p. 26, note 160.

Isler, Auaderni ticinesi. Numismatica e antichita classicho, 12, 1983, pp. 29, 41.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus vasorum antiquorum: Toledo Museum of Art, fasc. 3, U.S.A. fasc 20, Mainz, 1984, pl. 66.