A SICILIAN RED-FIGURE CALYX-KRATER attributed to the Chequer Painter

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A SICILIAN RED-FIGURE CALYX-KRATER attributed to the Chequer Painter
CIRCA 400-380 B.C.

The A side with Eros flying to crown a female banqueter who shares the couch with a male companion who crowns her with a wreath in added red, all three figures wearing wreaths in added white, the edge of the couch with a band of wave, a red wreath hanging above, the B side with two draped youths, one with a strigil, the other with a staff, both with fillets in added white, a band of meander and dotted chequered squares below, laurel above, intact, 13in. (33cm.) diam., 14in. (35.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

The Chequer Painter and his follower the Dirce Painter are considered by Trendall to be the chief forerunners of both early Campanian and Paestan vase painting. For closely related vases by the Chequer Painter see pls. 78.1 and 78.2 in Trendall, LCS.