ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF NAPLES 1959, CIRCA 340-310 B.C.

Details

A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF NAPLES 1959, CIRCA 340-310 B.C.
13 in. (33 cm.) high

Provenance

Elsa Bloch-Diener collection, Bern, acquired before 1975.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
A. D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Suppl. 3, London, 1983, p. 79, no. 810a.

Named by Trendall after a Panathenaic amphora in Naples, the Painter of Naples 1959 was a prolific Lucanian artist who drew inspiration from Apulian vase painters of the time. He often reused the same stock images on different vases, but he did occasionally compose more elaborate scenes like on this krater of rare and unusual shape. Here Herakles is depicted reclining on a couch next to the god Dyonisus, both holding a kantharos for the symposium. A maenad behind them is playing the flute and to the left a satyr is standing next to a seated Pan holding a syrinx.

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