Red-figure Calyx Krater; A: Nike and Poseidon; B: Woman and Old Man

Artist: Aegisthus Painter (Greek, Attic, ca. 480–460)

ca. 470 B.C.

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art
Medium

Terracotta, red-figure

Dimensions

15 13/16 × 18 7/8 × 17 11/16 in. (40.1 × 47.9 × 44.9 cm)
Foot: 1 5/16 × 7 7/16 in. (3.4 × 18.9 cm)

Credit Line

James W. Fosburgh, B.A. 1933, and Mary C. Fosburgh Collection Fund and Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund

Accession Number

1985.4.1

Culture

Greek, Attic

Period

Classical

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Nikolas Koutoulakis (Geneva); Swiss private collection; McAlpine Ancient Art, London, acquired from the above, by 1982; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1985.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery I (Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2011), 10–13, no. 9, pl. 14–15, 20.3–4, fig. 9
  • Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 262, ill
  • "Acquisitions 1985–1987," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 40, no. 2 (Spring 1988), 60–61
  • Jerome Jordan Pollitt, "Pots, Politics, and Personifications in Early Classical Athens," in "Essays in Honor of Alan Shestack, Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1971–1985," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 40, no. 1 (Spring 1987), 8, fig. 1
  • Susan B. Matheson, "A Red-Figure Krater by the Aegisthus Painter," in "Essays in Honor of Alan Shestack, Director of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1971–1985," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 40, no. 1 (Spring 1987), 2–7, fig. 1–3
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

calyx kraters, mythology

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