ATTRIBUTED TO PYTHON, CIRCA 340-330 B.C.

Details

A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO PYTHON, CIRCA 340-330 B.C.
9 ¾ in. (24.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1984, lot 578.
with Charles Ede, London, 1987 (Greek Pottery from South Italy, vol. XII, no. 1).
Acquired by the current owner from the above.

Literature

A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Paestum, London, 1987, p. 165, no. 327.

Exhibited

Dallas Museum of Art, 1989-1996 (Loan no. 262.1989.1).
San Antonio Museum of Art, 1998-2002 (Loan no. L.98.31.8).

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

The obverse of this bell-krater depicts Dionysos, seated and clad in a himation wrapped around his lower body. He holds a thyrsos in his left hand and a phiale in his right. On the reverse is a nude satyr who precariously rests his foot on a plant; he holds a thyrsos in his right hand and a wreath in his left. The scenes are nearly identical to one preserved on a krater in New York, no. 109 in Mayo, ed., The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia.

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