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Mixing wine-bowl (column-krater) depicting girls on a see-saw

Greek
Early Classical Period
about 470–460 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens

Medium/Technique Ceramic, Red Figure technique
Dimensions Length of fragment: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Julia Bradford Huntington James Fund and Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number10.191a
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 149.
DescriptionSix joining fragments. In front of a fruit tree a board laid across a log serves as a see-saw for two girls in sleeved chitons. See also 10.191b (three joining fragments from the same krater, showing part of a draped figure).
ProvenanceLudwig Pollak (dealer; b. 1868 - d. 1943), Rome [see note 1]. 1901, purchased in Rome by Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), Rome and London; 1910, sold by Warren to the MFA for $4000 [see note 2]. (Accession Date: June 2, 1910)

NOTES: [1] According to L. D. Caskey and J. D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol. 3 (1963), this was formerly in the possession of Ludwig Pollak. [2] Total price for MFA accession nos. 10.159-10.230.