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Ancient Art
Artist: The Primato Painter, Greek, Southern Italy, ca. 355-320 B.C.
Krater
ca. 360–320 B.C.
Ceramic. Red-Figure. Added white and yellow accents.
Height: 43.9 cm, 17.25 in.
Diameter at lip: 38.2 cm., 14.75 in.
Width with handles: 30.5 cm., 12 1/16 in.
Diameter of vase body above handles: 23.9 cm., 9 3/8 in.
Diameter of base: 17.5 cm., 6 7/8 in.
Yale University Art Gallery
[change to Gift of Paul V.C. Baur?]
1939.746
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Greek, South Italian, Lucanian
Period:
Late Classical
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
Basilicate, Italy.
Bibliography:
Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols. (Zurich: Artemis, 1981–97), vol. 3, p. 898, no. 560b; vol. 3, p. 918, no. 808.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
