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CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 430 B.C.
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE BELL-KRATER
classical period, circa 430 b.c.
The A-side with four figures, to the left a man wearing a himation over his left shoulder and around his waist, leaning on a staff, a laurel wreath in his hair, to his right two nude youths, one facing frontally, his head in profile, holding a laurel branch in his raised right hand, the other in profile holding two spears, each with a laurel wreath in his hair, and to the right, a woman wearing a peplos, a wreath in her left hand; B-side with three standing draped youths, a band of meander with saltire squares below each scene, a band of laurel below the rim, dotted ovolo framing the handles
13.3/8 in. (33.9 cm.) high
classical period, circa 430 b.c.
The A-side with four figures, to the left a man wearing a himation over his left shoulder and around his waist, leaning on a staff, a laurel wreath in his hair, to his right two nude youths, one facing frontally, his head in profile, holding a laurel branch in his raised right hand, the other in profile holding two spears, each with a laurel wreath in his hair, and to the right, a woman wearing a peplos, a wreath in her left hand; B-side with three standing draped youths, a band of meander with saltire squares below each scene, a band of laurel below the rim, dotted ovolo framing the handles
13.3/8 in. (33.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Alexander Iolas, New York