Lot 238
238
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED CALYX-KRATER
ANCIENT VASES FROM THE COLLECTION OF WILLIAM SUDDABY
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED CALYX-KRATER

THE L.C. GROUP, CIRCA 350-320 B.C.

Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED CALYX-KRATER
THE L.C. GROUP, CIRCA 350-320 B.C.
The obverse with youthful Dionysos seated on his himation, his legs crossed, holding a thyrsos in his right hand, his long curly locks falling past his shoulders, a maenad before him draped in an animal skin over a chiton, a tambourine and a tympanum in her raised hands, two nude bearded satyrs flanking the scene, two Doric columns framing Dionysos and the satyr to the left; the reverse with three draped youths, one holding a strigil; bands of laurel above and below, a band of ovolo on the rim, details in added white
13½ in. (34.3 cm.) high
Provenance
with Graham Geddes, Australia, circa 1970s.

Lot Essay

The L.C. (Late Calyx-Kraters) Group is part of the Kerch Style of Attic vases, named for the site in the eastern Crimea (ancient Panticapaeum) where a large number of late red-figured vases was found. For a similar example see no. 422, p. 214 in Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period.

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