AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED KANTHAROS
ANCIENT VASES FROM THE COLLECTION OF WILLIAM SUDDABY
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED KANTHAROS

ATTRIBUTED TO THE BALTIMORE PAINTER, CIRCA 330 B.C.

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AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED KANTHAROS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE BALTIMORE PAINTER, CIRCA 330 B.C.
One side with a nude youth seated to the left, holding two phialai, a fillet and an oinochoe, a draped and bejeweled woman seated to the right, holding a fan and laurel wreath, a bucranion in the field; the other side with a bejeweled winged Eros seated on a pile of rocks, holding an oinochoe and a cista, an fan across his knees; with columns flanking the scenes, a band of ovolo below and on the rim, details in added yellow and white; molded female heads where the handles join the rim
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Harmer Rooke Galleries, New York, 8 November 1990, lot 170.
Literature
A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, London, 1992, no. 27/110k.

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