![]() Thomas Hoving, then the Met's director, was so smitten by its classic beauty he called it "positively the finest work of art I've ever seen." (Take that, Michelangelo.) But the 2,500-year-old krater did have one major flaw. The krater-a 12-gallon pot for mixing wine and water-was one of only two dozen surviving examples by the great painter Euphronios, and it even had his signature. In 1972, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art paid a record-smashing $1 million for an ancient Greek vase known as the Euphronios Krater.
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