The Bell-Krater
Methyse Painter, ca. 450 BCE
$270
Print check at 24 x 18 in: 162 dpi, good. Fills the print edge to edge.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A terracotta bell-krater — the wide bowl in which wine was mixed with water before the drinking began — by the hand known as the Methyse Painter. A faithful reproduction of a public-domain work in The Metropolitan Museum (CC0). No house treatment; the painter’s own line, five centuries before Christ. The painter is named for Methyse — “Drunkenness” — a maenad on another of his pots. Civilisation was the ratio of water to wine.
- Maker
- Methyse Painter
- Date
- ca. 450 BCE
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Credit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00218
| Picture | 24 x 18 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 25.6 x 19.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | 365 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.2% |
| 14 x 11 in | 265 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.5% |
| 16 x 12 in | 243 | Excellent | Edge to edge |
| 20 x 16 in | 182 | Good | Trimmed 6.2% |
| 24 x 18 in | 162 | Good | Edge to edge |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | 121 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | 97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 81 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,893 x 2,921 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 6, lights 245 of 255; 0.2% clipped light, 0.4% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 8.9
Shipping for this piece to a US address is $25.90, the print room’s own rate, charged per piece. Checkout shows the total before you pay.
Every piece is printed after you order it, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ships from there. For now we ship to US addresses only.
A piece that arrives damaged, misprinted or in the wrong size is replaced at our cost. The details: shipping and returns and replacements.
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