An Attic Red-figured Column Krater, attributed to the Painter of Syracuse 23510, circa 460 B.C.

with stepped foot in two degrees, a frieze of confronted lions and boars on the edge of the rim, and linked lotus buds on one side of the neck, painted on one side with three racing young jockeys, the trailing horse emerging from behind the panel frame, the leading horse leaping in front of it, reins in added red, and on the other side with a staff-bearing man flanked by confronted himation-clad youths.

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (Sotheby's New York, November 21-22, 1985, lot 53 [offered as a pair with the preceding lot])

Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 14839

Repaired from mostly large fragments, with a little restoration along some of the break lines, minor chips and scratches, overhanging rim restored next to handle on side B, so that the animal is missing, half-inch chip on the inner rim, slight retouching in spots.
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