AN APULIAN RED FIGURE KNOB-HANDLED PATERA
AN APULIAN RED FIGURE KNOB-HANDLED PATERA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE BALTIMORE PAINTER CIRCA 330-320 B.C.

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AN APULIAN RED FIGURE KNOB-HANDLED PATERA
attributed to the baltimore painter
circa 330-320 b.c.
The tondo with a seated draped woman, her right hand plucking at her himation, her left trailing a floral garland, a maiden to the left with an oenochoe and cista, and a nude youth to the right with a mantle, leaning forward on a staff, grasping the seated woman's left wrist and presenting her a fan, Eros hovering above with a fan, with a knob-handled patera placed upon its side behind the youth, the exergue with a large head of Nike framed by her outspread wings, the tondo encircled by a band of wave and a band of leaves and tendrils in added white, rosettes on the knobs, a band of wave on the rim
19 in. (48.9 cm) in diameter

Lot Essay

For similar paterae by the Baltimore painter, with identical ornament and a head of a Nike in the exergue, see Trendall and Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia II, 872-73, nos. 63 and 67.

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