Among the grandest and most monumentally conceived of the Harrow Painter's works is the column-krater Harvard 1960.339 (Illustration 47), found at Ruvo and formerly in the collections of the Princess Tricase and David M. Robinson.[48] A large vessel, 49.2 cm. tall, it was found unbroken in a grave. The shape is more or less standard, with a bulbous body tapering to a torus foot in two degrees, a concave neck, "columnar" handles topped by horizontal plates, and a thick, overhanging rim, concave on the sides and slightly convex on top. The ornamental bands framing the pictures -- tongues above and ivy vines at the sides -- are also standard, as are the rays and red stripes circling the lower body. The top of the mouth is decorated with black palmettes on the handle plates and bands of lotus buds on the rim (Illustration 48).

Illustration 47

Illustration 48

On the reverse, the side of the rim has the usual ivy vine (Illustration 49), but the obverse rim has pairs of horizontal red-figure palmettes, arranged back-to-back and enclosed in lyre-shaped tendrils, a unique ornament for a column-krater (Illustration 50).[49]

Illustration 49

Illustration 50

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[48] ARV2, 274, 39; Beazley Addenda 2, 103; CVA, Robinson 2, 25-27, pls. 31-33; H. A. Shapiro, "Theseus, Athens, and Troizen," AA (1982) 294, fig. 4; B. Gentili, "Il Ditirambo XVII Sn. di Bacchilide e il cratere Tricase da Ruvo," ArchCl 6 (1954) 121-25, pls. 30-31; J. J. Pollitt, "Pots, Politics, and Personifications in Early Classical Athens," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (Spring 1987) 11-12, fig. 4.

[49] Cf. the black palmettes on the rim of Cleveland 30.104, by the Cleveland Painter (ARV2, 516, 1). Palmettes like those on the Harvard vase enjoyed a brief vogue in this period and are found on Nolan amphorae and other shapes; e.g. Brussels 721, a Nolan by the Eucharides Painter (ARV2, 226, 5), and Leiden PC 83, a hydria by the Kleophrades Painter, (ARV2, 188, 71). On two other column-kraters, the Harrow Painter put palmettes of a related type -- slanted, back-to-back, and linked by coiling tendrils -- on the obverse neck: Munich, private collection; JdI 94 (1979) 103, fig. 36; Padgett 1989 (supra) 191-92, fig. 115, no. H.65A; and another once in the New York art market, Sotheby's, May 20, 1982, no. 100; Padgett 1989 (supra) 192, no. H.65B.

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