A large Attic red-figure column krater
Mid 5th Century B.C.
Possibly by the Leningrad Painter, the body decorated on both sides with a Komos scene, depicting six male revellers from the symposium, all draped in himatia, side (a) showing three figures, the central figure holding a plectrum in his right hand to play the lyre in his left, and moving to the right, his head upturned as if singing, flanked to the left by a figure carrying an amphora in his left arm, a staff in his right, and to the right by a figure holding a staff and dancing with his right leg raised, side (b) with a further three figures, the central figure holding a skyphos in his left hand, moving to his right towards a figure holding a staff, whilst looking back at the figure on his left, each scene with a plain baseline, flanked by a double column of dots with a band of tongues above at the shoulder, rays emanating from the foot, a band of finely linked lotus buds at the neck on side (a) and on top of the rim, a double row of dots on the outside rim, palmettes on the projecting handle lugs, 17¼in (43.8cm) high, repaired with some restoration