Lot Essay
For the Horseman Group, cf. A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Oxford, 1967, pp. 499-500, pl. 195.
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ATTRIBUTED TO THE HORSEMAN GROUP, CIRCA 340-320 B.C.
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A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURED CALYX KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE HORSEMAN GROUP, CIRCA 340-320 B.C.
With a battle scene on two levels, the lower with warrior on horseback galloping to the right, wearing belted tunic, billowing chlamys, and high crested helmet, holding a spear aloft and pursuing another mounted warrior, wearing belted tunic, billowing chlamys and high crested helmet, who leans forward into the neck of his horse, with his head turned back; the upper level with a falling central warrior wearing belted tunic and chlamys, holding spears and shield, his right hand raised to his head with a wound issuing blood, to the right a crouching naked warrior wearing crested helmet, aiming bow and arrow, a shield and spear at his feet, to the left a warrior wearing spotted belted tunic, chlamys and crested helmet, his arms aloft aiming a sling, shield lying at his feet, running rabbit, draped cloaks, branches and leaves in the field, band of rosettes below the scene; the reverse with two himation-clad youths standing either side of a beribboned stele, one holding a long branch, bird, wineskin and two bound tablets in the field; band of laurel beneath the rim, details in added white, red and yellow
24 in. (61 cm.) high
ATTRIBUTED TO THE HORSEMAN GROUP, CIRCA 340-320 B.C.
With a battle scene on two levels, the lower with warrior on horseback galloping to the right, wearing belted tunic, billowing chlamys, and high crested helmet, holding a spear aloft and pursuing another mounted warrior, wearing belted tunic, billowing chlamys and high crested helmet, who leans forward into the neck of his horse, with his head turned back; the upper level with a falling central warrior wearing belted tunic and chlamys, holding spears and shield, his right hand raised to his head with a wound issuing blood, to the right a crouching naked warrior wearing crested helmet, aiming bow and arrow, a shield and spear at his feet, to the left a warrior wearing spotted belted tunic, chlamys and crested helmet, his arms aloft aiming a sling, shield lying at his feet, running rabbit, draped cloaks, branches and leaves in the field, band of rosettes below the scene; the reverse with two himation-clad youths standing either side of a beribboned stele, one holding a long branch, bird, wineskin and two bound tablets in the field; band of laurel beneath the rim, details in added white, red and yellow
24 in. (61 cm.) high
Provenance
with Dr. Elie Borowski, Basel, Switzerland, 1978.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Private collection, Switzerland.
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