Mixing Vessel (Bell Krater) with Two Youths, a Satyr, and a Woman

Said to have been excavated from a tomb at Lake Nemi (outside Rome, Italy); by May 1922, in the possession of Lucien M. Hanks, Sr.; May 1922 through 1968, loaned by Lucien M. Hanks Sr. to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison, WI); 4 June 1968, returned by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) to Lucien M. Hanks, Sr.’s son, Lucien Mason Hanks (North Bennington, VT); 4 June 1968, gifted by Lucien M. Hanks (North Bennington, VT) to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Trendall, A.D. and Alexander Cambitoglou. "The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, vol. 2 Late Apulian." (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 74, no. 54
• University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. "The Classical World: Aegean Art." Art History Image Search, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Online. Mar 7, 2003. <http://facstaff.uww.edu/henigec/imagesearch/index.htm>;

• From the Head of Zeus: Davenport Art Gallery, 4/21/1985–12/30/1986

• Europe
• Ceramics

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