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Show Athenian Vase Priced Possession of Museum An Athenian red-figured krnter, a large ornamented vase used for mixing mix-ing wine and water, of special Impor- lance owing 10 me tact mat it IS signed by the maker, Is among the recent accessions to the collections of the MetrKlltan Museum of Art, New York. The wine Jar bears In Greek the Inscription, "Pollon painted It" and Is the only known one signed by this artist. The piece stands two feet In height and is of about 420 B. a The vase, unfortunately, had been broken and has had to be put together again with restorations of missing parts, but this has been accomplished without serious seri-ous disfigurement to the docoratlon, which Is In unusually One style. Four, possibly five, other vases have been attributed to ' Pollon one In Naples, one in Bonn, one, with satyrs painted on It and another with athletes, at the Metropolitan museum. |