The spouted bowl (louterion or krater) is decorated in a silhouette technique. It shows a long boat rowed by nineteen oarsmen who face a helmsman at the stern with two steering paddles. On the other side of the bowl is a very worn frieze of animals.

This type of large spouted bowl (louterion) may have been used for mixing wine and water for drinking, as are later kraters, but it has also been associated with funerary rituals. In these rituals wine would be poured onto the grave as an offering to the dead.

The style of vessel, its decoration and the clay are all similar to other pots made in Athens or elsewhere in the region of Attica, however this example may not be Athenian but just 'Atticizing'. Other possibile production sites in Greece which have been suggested are Corinth, Boeotia and Megara.