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

about 470–460 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure technique
DimensionsLength of fragment: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.)
Credit LineJulia Bradford Huntington James Fund and Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession number10.191a
On View
On view
ClassificationsVessels
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.
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