Lot Essay
For the reverse compare the nearly identical scene on another bell-krater by the Hephaistos Painter now in the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Frankfurt, Beazley Archive Database no. 275463.
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ATTRIBUTED TO THE HEPHAISTOS PAINTER, CIRCA 460-430 B.C.
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE HEPHAISTOS PAINTER, CIRCA 460-430 B.C.
The obverse with a komos, the procession led by two nude youths each with a chlamys over his arm, a fillet in the hair, holding a walking stick, the first facing frontal but looking back toward his companions, the second walking right but looking back, gesturing with his raised right hand, a woman following, playing an aulos, wearing a floor-length, finely-pleated, sleeveless chiton, her hair pulled back in a chignon and bound in a fillet in added red, a nude youth behind her playing a lyre, a chlamys draped over his left shoulder, a fillet in his hair; a band of meander and dotted checkered squares below the scenes; the reverse with three partially-draped standing youths in profile, the central figure holding a large cup in his extended left hand, his right arm akimbo, his companions each with a walking stick; a band of meander below the scene, laurel encircling below the rim
16 ¼ in. (41.3 cm.) diameter
ATTRIBUTED TO THE HEPHAISTOS PAINTER, CIRCA 460-430 B.C.
The obverse with a komos, the procession led by two nude youths each with a chlamys over his arm, a fillet in the hair, holding a walking stick, the first facing frontal but looking back toward his companions, the second walking right but looking back, gesturing with his raised right hand, a woman following, playing an aulos, wearing a floor-length, finely-pleated, sleeveless chiton, her hair pulled back in a chignon and bound in a fillet in added red, a nude youth behind her playing a lyre, a chlamys draped over his left shoulder, a fillet in his hair; a band of meander and dotted checkered squares below the scenes; the reverse with three partially-draped standing youths in profile, the central figure holding a large cup in his extended left hand, his right arm akimbo, his companions each with a walking stick; a band of meander below the scene, laurel encircling below the rim
16 ¼ in. (41.3 cm.) diameter
Provenance
with Atelier Amphora, Lugano, 1992.