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Mixing bowl (krater) with sprinters

about 480 B.C.
Place of ManufactureCerveteri, Lazio, Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Black Figure
DimensionsHeight: 26.1 cm (10 1/4 in.)
Credit LinePurchased by contribution and Bequest of Charles H. Parker, by exchange
Accession number1998.49
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
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.

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The Lotus Bud Group
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the Bulas Group
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the Bulas Group
about 400–375 B.C.
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the Three-Line Group
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The Group of Walters 48.42
about 510–500 B.C.
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the Lancut Group
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the Lindos Group
late 6th century B.C.
Oil flask (alabastron) with a warrior
the Group of the Negro Alabastra
about 490–480 B.C.
Pitcher (olpe) with Herakles in the bowl of Helios
The Leagros Group
about 520–510 B.C.
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about 550 B.C.
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Randazzo Group
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