Red figured Volute Krater

Beautiful ancient Greek red figured Krater.
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Our Greek pottery items are handmade in Greece in a small family
workshop using natural quality materials, superb craftsmanship and
attention to detail. They are licensed and modeled after museum
pieces from all over the world and bear the lead seal of authenticity.

A krater is a vase used to mix wine and water. At a Greek symposium,
kraters were placed in the center of the room. They were quite large,
so they were not easily portable when filled. Thus, the wine-water
mixture would be withdrawn from the krater with other vessels.
An interesting side note to this is that the modern Greek word now
used for undiluted wine, krasi, originates from this mixing of wine
and water in kraters. Kraters were glazed on the interior to make
the surface of the clay more suitable for holding water, and possibly
for aesthetic reasons, since the interior could easily be seen.

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