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Mixing bowl (krater) with lid
Greek
Late Geometric II Period
735–700 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 27.5 cm (10 13/16 in.); diameter: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.781a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 265.
DescriptionKrater with lid. Top of lid in shape of skyphos. Decoration purely linear: zigzags, checkerboard, diamonds; metope-like panels between reflex handles. Lower part of body has lines and two larger two bands. High fenestrated foot.
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren ([one of a group of eleven Dipylon vases 03.772-03.782] according to Warren's records: Bt. in Paris. All the Dipylon vases were said to have been found together, and were certainly found in Athens. [Also in Warren's records is the following note]: "I had seen them in a garden in Athens." J.M. [John Marshall]); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24,1903