Fragment of flanged handle. Glaze chipped in many places. Max. dim. 0.14. Schleiffenbaum, Volutenkrater, p. 325, cat. no. V 206.

On flange, spirals with ivy leaves in the interstices. On back of handle, olive spray with fruit; below that a band of egg pattern with dots; then part of a floral.

For spirals on the flanges as well as leaves, see 242. The tightness of the spirals on 243 and the carefully drawn ivy leaves in the interstices are similar to the examples on the handles of two volute-kraters by the Niobid Painter (see the comparanda for 242), and 243 may be by him. The three by the Niobid Painter lack decoration on the back of each handle.

Not from the same volute-krater as 242: there, the leaves grow downward; on 243, they grow upward.