Symposium
- Title
- Symposium
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Calyx-krater Old Catalogue 1436 Vase F37
- Creator
- Chequer Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Chequer Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 410-380)
- Description
- Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater (wine-bowl). Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and purple; restored. Above, laurel-wreath; below each design, maeander and chequer. (a) Symposion: On a couch ornamented with wave-pattern and crosses recline two male figures to left; the one on the left has curly hair and beard, purple fillet and himation over lower limbs, left arm resting on a chequered pillow; he holds a kylix by the handle with right forefinger, as if playing cottabos. The other is beardless, with curly hair, a purple and a white fillet, and himation over lower limbs, right hand extended, left arm resting on a similar pillow; the mattress of the couch is embroidered. On the left is Eros hovering to right, holding out a chaplet of beads in both hands; before him is a cottabos-stand, painted purple. (b) Two ephebi confronted, with fillets and himatia over left shoulders; the one on the left holds out a strigil, the other has a staff in right hand. Between them is a stele, on which is a fruit; and above, an aryballos. --The British Museum Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Campania, Italy (creation)
- Temporal
- ca. 400-380 BCE
- Subject
- Other named painters Pottery V Red Figure Symposium Red Figure, White, Animal
- Style Period
- Red-figure Campanian (pottery style)
- Work Type
- calyx kraters
- Date
- -0400/-0380
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_06260
- Item Locator
- Box 14, Section 9
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 35.4 cm Diameter: 34 cm Weight: 2.5 kg Height: 35.56 cm Diameter: 34.29 cm
- Material
- pottery | painted
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Campanian (culture or style)
- Id Current Repository
- 1772,0320.34
