Calyx Krater with a Departure Scene

470-460 BCE (Classical)

35.8 cm 35.9 cm

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The scene on this "krater" depicts another milestone in the life of a young man. At the culmination of years of training, a warrior stands beside the family altar preparing to leave for war. He wears a short tunic under a "cuirass" (breastplate) and holds his spear in his left...

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Alessandro Castellani, Rome, by 1883, [mode of acquisition unknown]; sale, Collection Alessandro Castellani: Objets d'art antiques, Rome, March 17-April 10, 1884, lot 82. Thomas B. Clarke, New York, by 1925, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Thomas B. Clarke Sale, American Art Gallery, New York, January 7-10, 1925, no. 625; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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