VARIOUS PROPERTIES
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE COLUMN-KRATER
Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE COLUMN-KRATER
attributed to the Triptolemos Painter
Circa 480-470 B.C.
One side with a highly excited nude satyr running right, in mid stride, pushing of the right leg, the left leg raised, his arms flung wide, depicted bearded and balding, wearing a fillet of ivy in added white, in pursuit of a maenad on the other side of the vase, shown running right but looking back towards the satyr, wearing a chiton, hanging loosely from her shoulders, the long pleats fanned out from her movement, a thyrsos in her left hand, the undulating snake which she held in her right hand falls to the ground behind her, wearing a fillet of ivy in added white, a groundline below, the remainder of the vase black except for the reserve zone around the black rays above the foot, and a bud frieze on the neck above the maenad, a band in fugitive glaze circles the vase at the groundline, restored from multiple fragments with very minor losses
14 1/4in. (36.2cm.) high
attributed to the Triptolemos Painter
Circa 480-470 B.C.
One side with a highly excited nude satyr running right, in mid stride, pushing of the right leg, the left leg raised, his arms flung wide, depicted bearded and balding, wearing a fillet of ivy in added white, in pursuit of a maenad on the other side of the vase, shown running right but looking back towards the satyr, wearing a chiton, hanging loosely from her shoulders, the long pleats fanned out from her movement, a thyrsos in her left hand, the undulating snake which she held in her right hand falls to the ground behind her, wearing a fillet of ivy in added white, a groundline below, the remainder of the vase black except for the reserve zone around the black rays above the foot, and a bud frieze on the neck above the maenad, a band in fugitive glaze circles the vase at the groundline, restored from multiple fragments with very minor losses
14 1/4in. (36.2cm.) high
Provenance
Ruspoli Collection, Rome
Knoedler and Co., NY
Knoedler and Co., NY
Literature
Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed., Vol. I, p. 362, no. 13 (10), from Cervteri.