(1807), illustrating objects he had designed for his London house at Duchess Street. The most important of these publications was Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. The vase was once owned by Thomas Hope (1769-1831), the collector, connoisseur, patron and designer, who published a number of influential books of designs. A younger, clean-shaven, naked Herakles, simply bearing on his head the Nemean lion skin, sits peacefully in a luxuriant garden prefiguring the Elysian Fields, watching the golden apples which the Hesperides will bring him, symbolising immortality, being picked.The krater was an ancient Greek vase with two handles that was used to mix wine and water. The hero no longer fights the snake guarding the tree with the golden apples or carries the world on his shoulders in place of Atlas.

However, this episode is depicted in a totally new light. He is rarely depicted performing his labours, with the exception of his stay in the garden of the Hesperides. In the figurative repertoire, Herakles holds a privileged position alongside Dionysos, but he is quite different from the hero of the classical era. The popularity of this shape is perhaps associated with local cult practices. This accounts for the discovery of a number of Attic vases in Boeotia, notably in Tanagra.īased on these discoveries, the most popular type of vase in Boeotia was the chalice-shaped crater, which has a more slender form than in the previous century. Exports of Athenian ceramics to northern Greece, which began in the 5th century BC, continued throughout the following century.

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