NEAR THE GRAZ PAINTER, CIRCA 380-360 B.C.

Details

AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
NEAR THE GRAZ PAINTER, CIRCA 380-360 B.C.
10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Auction XIX, Harmer Rooke Numismatics, New York, 21 September 1984, lot 33.

Literature

K. Hamma, ed., The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, San Bernardino, 1989, p. 57, no. 30.
A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-figured Vases of Apulia, London, 1991, p. 35, no. 217a.

Exhibited

San Bernardino and Northridge, University Art Galleries, California State University, The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, 5 May 1989-30 March 1990.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

On the obverse a draped woman wearing a peplos and holding a phiale and wreath, stands before a nude youth seated on a block, its plinth with a Greek inscription, TERMON. On the reverse two draped youths, one with a staff, stand adjacent to a pillar similarly inscribed TERMON. Inscriptions on Apulian vases are comparatively rare. As A.D. Trendall notes (p. 77 in Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily) TERMON probably signifies a boundary-post or finishing line in the palestra. For a related vase, perhaps a companion piece, in a California private collection with the same inscription, see A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, op. cit., no. 217c.

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