A major monument in the history of Greek pottery, the François Vase is a large (66 cm) volute krater in a black-figure design, signed both by the potter, Ergotimos, and the painter, Kleitias (also spelled Clitias). The Attic work has been dated to 570 BC. In 1900, a disgruntled museum guard threw a stool at the case and smashed the François Vase to 638 pieces! It was restored in by Pietro Zei, incorporating the Strozzi fragment, but missing another piece which had been stolen. That piece was returned in 1904. A new reconstruction was performed in 1973. Today the krater is located in the Floren
A major monument in the history of Greek pottery, the François Vase is a large (66 cm) volute krater in a black-figure design, signed both by the potter, Ergotimos, and the painter, Kleitias (also spelled Clitias). The Attic work has been dated to 570 BC. In 1900, a disgruntled museum guard threw a stool at the case and smashed the François Vase to 638 pieces! It was restored in by Pietro Zei, incorporating the Strozzi fragment, but missing another piece which had been stolen. That piece was returned in 1904. A new reconstruction was performed in 1973. Today the krater is located in the Florence Archaeological Museum.
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