CIRCA 340-320 B.C.

Details

AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED COLUMN-KRATER
CIRCA 340-320 B.C.
16 ½ in. (42 cm.) high

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris, acquired by 1990; thence by descent.
Dessins et Tableaux, Bel Ameublement provenant d'un appartement parisien, Christie's, Paris, 8 October 2002, lot 62.

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Lot Essay

The obverse of this krater depicts Eros, seated on a rock, holding a lidded vessel in his outstretched right hand, with a rosette-chain below. This krater is nearly identical to another, with the obverse attributed to the Patera Painter and the reverse, with a profile female head, attributed to the Amphorae Group, once on the Basel Market (see Sonderliste B, Münzen und Medaillen, 1955, no. 34 and p. 747, no. 177 in A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, vol. II).

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