Goblet crater of glossy earthenware with gilding. Campanian, 330 - 320 BC. H 31,1cm, ø mouth 26,3cm, ø 14,2cm, ø foot 11,9cm. Glossy earthenware with clay-ground painting in the form of a laurel wreath, originally gilded on top. On the rim in red figural technique a wavy band. Foot broken and reattached, gilding lost, superficial chipping inside the muzzle. Provenance: at Gorny & Mosch, Munich auction 268, 2019, lot 22; ex Bonhams, London October 24, 2012, lot 79 ( The property of a European private collector. Acquired in the UK and the US in the late 1970s - early 1990s ); in Germany since 2012. Cf. for example, a goblet crater in Toledo, Ohio, Museum of Art 17.133 (CVA 2 pl. 115.1-2; Beazley Archive Pottery Database 1001549). On lustre clay vessels with gold overlays in general, see. F. S. Knauß - J. Gebauer (eds.), Black is Beautiful - Greek Luster Clay Pottery. Exhibition Munich (2019) p. 38 with note 13.
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