Krater - image 1

Archaic I

Krater

Two-handled vase of angular form: A and B: three birds separated by trees. 8 7/8in. (22.6cm) Other (rim): 4 1/4in. (10.8cm)

Date

750 - 600 BC

Accession No.

74.51.502

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1885. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 1. pl. CXXIII.933, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 695, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.