Detail of a Terracotta Column Krater Attributed to the Pig Painter in the Metropolitan Museum, April 2017

Title: Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Artist: Attributed to the Pig Painter

Period: Classical

Date: ca. 480 BCE

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta; red-figure

Dimensions: Overall: 16 1/16 x 15 7/16in. (40.8 x 39.3cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1956

Accession Number: 56.171.47


Obverse, Dionysos and satyr
Reverse, satyr

The Pig Painter was a contemporary of the Pan Painter among the Mannerist artists. Here he presents his own version of a satyr waiting on Dionysos, the god of wine, with an oinochoe (jug) and a pointed amphora (jar). On the reverse, another satyr gesticulates in expressive abandon.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254905