THE SIDEWINDER GROUP, CIRCA 350-325 B.C.

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AN APULIAN GNATHIAN-WARE BELL-KRATER
THE SIDEWINDER GROUP, CIRCA 350-325 B.C.
The obverse with a vine band of grape clusters, tendrils, and leaves, a band of dotted ovolo and red and yellow fillets each framed by parallel incised lines below the overhanging rim, tear-drop and triple-dots below; the mold-made handles each in the form of a lion head
15 1/16 in. (38.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Antiquities, Sotheby & Co., London, 29 April 1974, lot 323.
A Japanese Private Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 2007, lot 62.

Lot Essay

The Sidewinder Group is identified by its "complex treatment of the lower side of the vines where pairs of grapes and tendrils and of leaf and tendrils alternatively move sideways along the stem...Also characteristic is the central red grape bunch, the groups of three dots on the lower wall and the patternwork on the neck" (J.R. Green, Gnathia Pottery in the Akademisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, p. 9). For an oinochoe by the Sidewinder Group, see no. 13, pl. 15 in op. cit.

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