Keywords: Christie Painter - Red-Figure Bell Krater - Walters 4874 - Side A.jpg The wine-god Dionysus appears often on vases of this shape called a bell krater which held wine for drinking parties He is usually shown as a bearded and majestic god Here Dionysus holds a thyrsus a pole often twined with ivy and grapevines and topped with a pine cone in one hand and a kantharos a high-handled drinking cup in the other He turns his head to gaze at a maenad who follows while a satyr playing the double flutes leads the procession The maenad carries an oinochoe a wine jug and a lighted torch indicating that the group's journey takes place at night ca 440 BC Classical terracotta cm 29 2 34 30 8 accession number 48 74 29124 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome cat no 170 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Athens Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek red-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Christie Painter Bell kraters Dionysos with Sileni in ancient Greek pottery Christie Painter Maenads in ancient Greek pottery Auloi in ancient Greek pottery Thyrsos in ancient Greek pottery Oinochoes in art Torches in art Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update |