AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER

CIRCA 420 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
CIRCA 420 B.C.
The obverse with two pairs of facing draped figures, to the left a bearded male and a youth, each crowned in a laurel wreath, the bearded figure with his shoulders and upper torso nude, a himation draped around his lower body, leaning on a staff, gesturing with his right hand toward his face, the youth wearing a chlamys with a striped hem, pinned at his right shoulder, two spears in his raised right hand, to the right a female and a youth, the female wearing a peplos with overfold and a striped hem, an oinochoe in her lowered right hand, a phiale before her in her raised left, the youth crowned in a laurel wreath, wearing a chlamys pinned at his right shoulder, two spears in his lowered left hand, gesturing with his right; the reverse with three draped youths, two facing right, one facing left, gesturing with his right arm; a band of meander and checkered squares below each scene, laurel below the rim, dotted ovolo around the handle roots
13 3/8 in. (34 cm.) high

來源

Art Market, Freiburg, 1988.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1990 (One Thousand Years of Ancient Greek Vases, from Greece, Etruria & Southern Italy, no. 68). Anonymous sale; Superior Galleries, Beverly Hills, 2-4 June 1996, lot 2043.
Art Market, Kansas City, 1998.
Private Collection, Florida.
with Kodner Galleries, Dania Beach, Florida, 2013.

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Molly Morse Limmer

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The scene depicted on the obverse can be interpreted as Tyndareus and Leda welcoming home their twin sons Castor and Polydeuces. For the subject see no. 185 in Hermary, "Dioskouroi," LIMC. However, the subject need not be mythological and may simply depict two youths returning from the hunt.

CIRCA 420 B.C.

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