An Attic red-figured column krater, attributed to the Painter of the Louvre Centauromachy, 450-430 B.C.

painted with a symposium scene, comprising a man and a youth reclining on couches with tables before them, a woman playing the double flute in between, three draped youths on the reverse, black-figure confronted lions and boars on the rim, a graffito ("KO") underneath the foot.

Robert Clements (1732-1804), 1st Earl of Leitrim, Killadoon, County Kildare, probably acquired during his Grand Tour, 1753-54 (when in Rome his portrait was painted by Pompeo Batoni, now in the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College)
Nathanial Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim,  Killadoon (the krater inventoried there in 1807)

thence by descent to the present owners

 

Broken and repaired from several large and a few small fragments, with minor restoration along parts of the break lines and edges of handles, large piece missing from the reverse, other damages and chips.
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