Lot Essay
Cf. A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, I, Oxford, 1978, p. 317ff and p. 331ff; and op. cit., R.V.A., 2nd Supp., p. 79ff. and p. 83ff. for the Snub-Nose and "H.A." Painters.
MID 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
An Apulian bell-krater, attributed to the Circle of the Snub-Nose Painter or the "H.A." Painter
Mid 4th Century B.C.
Side A: A naked youth or Dionysos(?) seated in the centre, his mantle fallen about his waist and wearing a radiate fillet, holding a patera in his left hand and a thyrsos in his right, approaching him to the right is a similarly attired youth, holding a thyrsos in his crooked left arm and a bird in his outstretched right hand, above them flies another bird grasping a dotted wreath, to the left a draped maenad holds a flaming torch and a situla, a rosette above, dotted ground lines indicated
Side B: Three youths in long himations, one standing to the left while the two others approach from the right with arm outstretched, one holding out a dotted wreath
Double palmettes and scrolling volutes under the handles with a frieze of meander and crossed-squares below, a laurel leaf band below the rim, repaired with restoration
17 1/8in. (43.5cm.) high
Mid 4th Century B.C.
Side A: A naked youth or Dionysos(?) seated in the centre, his mantle fallen about his waist and wearing a radiate fillet, holding a patera in his left hand and a thyrsos in his right, approaching him to the right is a similarly attired youth, holding a thyrsos in his crooked left arm and a bird in his outstretched right hand, above them flies another bird grasping a dotted wreath, to the left a draped maenad holds a flaming torch and a situla, a rosette above, dotted ground lines indicated
Side B: Three youths in long himations, one standing to the left while the two others approach from the right with arm outstretched, one holding out a dotted wreath
Double palmettes and scrolling volutes under the handles with a frieze of meander and crossed-squares below, a laurel leaf band below the rim, repaired with restoration
17 1/8in. (43.5cm.) high
Provenance
Formerly in the Collection of the Fürsten zu Waldeck, Bergheim.