{"data": {"id": 155057, "accession_number": "1989.73", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Red-Figure Bell-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Bust of Dionysos and Comic Actors (A); Dionysos, Satyr, Maenad (B), c. 390\u2013380 BCE. Attributed to Choregos Painter (South Italian, Apulian, active c. 390\u2013380 BCE). Ceramic; overall: 38 cm (14 15/16 in.); diameter of rim: 40.3 cm (15 7/8 in.); diameter of foot: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1989.73", "current_location": "102D Pre-Roman", "title": "Red-Figure Bell-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Bust of Dionysos and Comic Actors (A); Dionysos, Satyr, Maenad (B)", "creation_date": "c. 390\u2013380 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -395, "creation_date_latest": -375, "artists_tags": ["gender unknown"], "culture": ["South Italian, Apulian"], "technique": "ceramic", "support_materials": [], "department": "Greek and Roman Art", "collection": "GR - South Italy", "type": "Ceramic", "measurements": "Overall: 38 cm (14 15/16 in.); Diameter of rim: 40.3 cm (15 7/8 in.); Diameter of foot: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.38, "height_inch": 14, "height_inch_fraction": 0.9375}, "diameter of rim": {"width": 0.403, "width_inch": 15, "width_inch_fraction": 0.875}, "diameter of foot": {"width": 0.184, "width_inch": 7, "width_inch_fraction": 0.25}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 311440, "title": "Notable Acquisitions", "description": "<i>Notable Acquisitions</i>. 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Over his shoulder and behind his head rests his <em>thyrsos</em>, sprouting grapevines. Comic actors, identifiable by their masks and padded costumes, flank the colossal bust, stretching for a bunch of grapes on the left and holding a large <em>skyphos </em>(wine cup) on the right. On the reverse, Dionysos marches in procession with his retinue, a satyr and maenad.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60750590"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1989.73-red-figure-bell-krat"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.", "page_number": "BAPD 1002927", "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/024DCCAF-5F06-4196-A398-837ADF9BA2A0"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 8", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n23"}, {"citation": "Turner, Evan H., et al. \"Notable Acquisitions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147.", "page_number": "p. 73 (entry by A. Kozloff).", "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25161319"}, {"citation": "\"Recent Acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art 1: Departments of Western Art: Supplement.\" <em>The Burlington Magazine</em> 133, no. 1054 (1991).", "page_number": "pp. 63-68", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/884642"}, {"citation": "Trendall, A. D., Alexander Cambitoglou, and A. D. 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Paul Getty Museum in association with the Cleveland Museum of Art): 15-27.", "page_number": "See p. 25, Fig. 5.", "url": null}, {"citation": "Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.", "page_number": "p. 50-51, pl. 92-93", "url": null}, {"citation": "Easterling, P. E., and Edith Hall. <em>Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession.</em> Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2002.", "page_number": "p. vii", "url": null}, {"citation": "Hart, Mary Louise, and J. Michael Walton.<em> The Art of Ancient Greek Theater.</em> Los Angeles, Calif: J. 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