Terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Spreckles Painter
ca. 450 BCE
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
H. 18 in. (45.7 cm) diameter of mouth 17 5/8 in. (44.7 cm)
Classification
Vases
Culture & Period
Greek, Attic · Classical
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1907
Accession Number
07.286.66
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
KingsMenSnakes
About the Artist
Spreckles Painter
**The Spreckles Painter** was an anonymous Attic vase-painter active in Athens during the Classical period of ancient Greece, around 450 BCE. Like most Greek ceramic artists of the era, his personal biography remains unknown; no records survive of his birth, training, or family. Scholars identify him today solely through stylistic analysis of surviving pottery, a common practice for unnamed ancien...