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Mixing bowl (krater) with sprinters
Italic, Etruscan
Classical Period
about 480 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Italy, Lazio, Cerveteri
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Black Figure
Dimensions
Height: 26.1 cm (10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased by contribution and Bequest of Charles H. Parker, by exchange
Accession Number1998.49
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionSide B: Three nude youths running left. Their posture indicates that the race depicted is a sprint.
Side A: Herakles and Geras. Herakles on left, body facing left, head facing right. He wields a club above his head with his right hand. He wears a cloak and carries a staff in his left hand and a wineskin over his back. Geras has a wrinkled brow and white beard.
Side A: Herakles and Geras. Herakles on left, body facing left, head facing right. He wields a club above his head with his right hand. He wears a cloak and carries a staff in his left hand and a wineskin over his back. Geras has a wrinkled brow and white beard.
Provenance1997, said to come from the collection of André Lagneau, Neuchâtel and Geneva, Switzerland [see note 1]. 1997, sold by Sekhmet Ancient Art, Ltd., Gibraltar [see note 2], to Hicham Aboutaam, Phoenix Ancient Art, Geneva and New York; 1998, sold by Phoenix Ancient Art to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 22, 1998)
NOTES:
[1] In a letter to the MFA (April 24, 1998), André Lagneau attested that the krater had been in his collection, that he had acquired it in 1975 from his friend, Pierre Sciclounoff (b. 1926 – d. 1997) of Geneva, and that the previous owner was a French collector. A catalogue of the Sciclounoff collection (Jacques Chamay, Céramiques de Grande Grèce et Autres Antiquités, Geneva, 2021) does not, however, include the MFA krater. A prefatory note states that “the collection of ceramics from Southern Italy...has been, it seems, fully reconstructed. Only a few pieces have not been taken into account as they are of minor importance” (p. 79).
[2] Sekhmet Ancient Art imported the krater in 1997 and, according to Phoenix Ancient Art, was the owner at the time.
NOTES:
[1] In a letter to the MFA (April 24, 1998), André Lagneau attested that the krater had been in his collection, that he had acquired it in 1975 from his friend, Pierre Sciclounoff (b. 1926 – d. 1997) of Geneva, and that the previous owner was a French collector. A catalogue of the Sciclounoff collection (Jacques Chamay, Céramiques de Grande Grèce et Autres Antiquités, Geneva, 2021) does not, however, include the MFA krater. A prefatory note states that “the collection of ceramics from Southern Italy...has been, it seems, fully reconstructed. Only a few pieces have not been taken into account as they are of minor importance” (p. 79).
[2] Sekhmet Ancient Art imported the krater in 1997 and, according to Phoenix Ancient Art, was the owner at the time.