ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art
Artist
Vix Krater Workshop
(Greek, Laconian)
Vessel Attachment on the Form of a Bull
AAT Object Form/Functionfigurines
AAT Object Form/Functionappliqué (metalwork ornament)
CultureGreek, Laconian
PeriodArchaic
Datemid 6th Century BCE
MediumBronze
Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art
Dimensions2 1/2 x 2 3/4 x 3/4 in. (6.4 x 7 x 1.9 cm)
Object number2003.006.001
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - April 28, 2014MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesSotheby's London, Antiquities (3rd December 1991), lot 123.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2003.
Jasper Gaunt, review of Italy and the Restoration of the Magnificent Crater. Masterpieces of the National Museum Belgrade, ed. by Louis Godart, Bollettino d'Arte 9 (January-March 2011): 148-49, figure 4.
MCCM Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2013.
ProvenanceEx coll. Dr. Peter and Ulrike Feuz, Germany. With Sotheby's London, December 3, 1991, lot 123. Ex coll. Sir Claude Hankes-Drielsma [Stanford Place Collection], Great Britain. Purchased by MCCM from Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, England.
Status
On viewCollections
- Greek and Roman Art
ca. 540 BCE
3rd-2nd Century BCE
1st Century BCE
1st-2nd Century CE
1st Century BCE
Navigius Workshop
late 3rd-early 4th Century CE
ca. 3200-2700 BCE
2nd-3rd Century CE
2nd-3rd Century CE
