Lot 117
117
A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
THE PROPERTY OF AN AUSTRALIAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER

ATTRIBUTED TO THE CREUSA PAINTER, CIRCA 400-380 B.C.

Details
A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE CREUSA PAINTER, CIRCA 400-380 B.C.
The obverse centered by Apollo, seated on a klismos, playing the lyre, wearing a mantle over his waist and legs, laced boots, and a laurel wreath in his long wavy hair, his sister Artemis standing before him, wearing a short chiton and hunting boots, holding her bow in her left hand, a wreath in her right, a female standing behind him, wearing a chiton and a himation up over the back of her head as a veil, holding a phiale in her left hand, a wreath in her right, a fillet hanging above; the reverse with three draped youths; a band of meander with saltire squares below the scenes, a band of laurel encircling below the rim
12½ in. (31.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Major Alexander Ronald George Strutt, 4th Lord Belper (1912-1999), Kingston Hall, Nottingham; Christie's, London, 6 July 1976, lot 46.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1982, lot 175.
Estate of Sigmund S. Harrison, Philadelphia; Sotheby's, New York, 23 June 1989, lot 195.
Collection of A.C. Miller; Sotheby's, New York, 6 June 2006, lot. 20.
Literature
A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Third Supplement, Oxford, 1983, p. 48, no. C 53.

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Lot Essay

"During the construction of Kingston Hall between 1840 and 1844, one of the largest pagan cemeteries in England was discovered, and it may have been this that stimulated the interest of the Strutt family in antiquity. The nucleus of the collection of Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities appears to have been vases given to the mother of the first Lord Belper, then Mr. Edward Strutt by Sir Sandford Graham, though only in a few cases is it known where the latter obtained them" (Christie's, London, op. cit., p. 13).

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