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Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Apollo and Goddesses with Chariot (A); Komos (Revel) (B)
The collection record classifies this work as ceramic. It is dated c. 470–460 BCE. Recorded culture or place: Greek, Attic.
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- Museum title
- Red-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel): Apollo and Goddesses with Chariot (A); Komos (Revel) (B)
- Date
- c. 470–460 BCE
- Culture / origin
- Greek, Attic
- Materials and technique
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 56.5 cm (22 1/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Cleveland Painter (name vase; Greek, Attic, active c. 470–460 BCE)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1930.104
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Since this column-krater is the most important of 12 vases painted by a Greek artist whose name is unknown, the great English vase expert, Sir John D. Beazley, named him (or her) the Cleveland Painter, after our city. Other vases by the Cleveland Painter are now in New York, Vienna, Paris, and Copenhagen, as well as museums in Greece and Italy. The chariot scene on the main side of the vessel is a divine one, as indicated by the presence of Apollo, identified by his lyre and laurel wreath. With him are three goddesses, probably his sister Artemis (facing him), together with Hera (wearing a crown and holding a scepter and libation dish), and Hebe, the daughter of Zeus and Hera, on her way to meet her future husband, Herakles.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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