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Column Krater
Column Krater

Column Krater

Artist Unknown
Dateearly 5th century BCE
MediumTerracotta - ceramic with black glaze
DimensionsH. 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm)
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes
Object numberG.75.8.3
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceReportedly discovered in Italy, n.d. (per Komor, see file); with Mathias Komor, New York; sold to Gordon Hanes, Winston-Salem, NC, 1974; given to NCMA, 1975.Published ReferencesEdgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 45.

Dr. Cornelius Vermeule, III, Greek and Etruscan Art of the Archaic Period (New York: Atlantis Antiquities, 1988), 46, 74.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 17.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” November 23, 1975-March 7, 1976 (not in catalogue).
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