3-045-290 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Attic Red-Figure Volute Krater, about 445-430 BC. Additional Info: Fragments preserving most of the rim and neck, as well as a small section of the upper body. Neck. A.B. A thiasos with six satyrs and five maenads runs around the neck interrupted by the handles.Flaring rim flat and black on the top. Offset at the top of figured frieze and another at the top of the lotus and palmette frieze; a groove at the junction of the neck with the body. Interior black to the base of the neck with a reserved band under the shoulder and thinner, irregular black inside the body. Ionic kymation on the outside edge of rim. Convex zone below it with ivy and berry pattern. Narrow flat zone with Ionic kymation between the rim and the neck. Upper zone of neck decorated with alternating budding lotuses and encircled palmettes. Black tongue pattern beneath the junction of neck with the body; all the patterns are interrupted at the handles. Traces of an inverted palmette beneath the one preserved stump of a handle.