Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Pig Painter
ca. 475–465 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Obverse, satyr pursing maenad Reverse, satyr with keras (drinking horn) By the second quarter of the fifth century, the column-krater was quite an old-fashioned shape, yet it found favor with the Pig Painter and his Mannerist colleagues. Note the survival of black-figure ornament on the front of the neck.
- Artist
- Pig Painter
- Date
- ca. 475–465 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1906
