ATTRIBUTED TO THE HEPHAISTOS PAINTER CIRCA MID 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE COLUMN-KRATER
attributed to the hephaistos painter
circa mid 5th century b.c.
The A-side with four komasts, including a bearded man moving right playing a lyre, a youth holding a staff up high in his left hand, moving right but gesturing back toward the lyre player, a draped maenad walking right playing the flute, and facing her a bearded man holding a staff horizontally in his right hand and an amphora over his shoulder in his left hand, with elongated lotus bud chain on the neck; the B-side with four draped youths; with lotus bud chain on the upper surface of the rim, a palmette on the handle-plates, a double band of dots on the side of the rim, the scenes framed on the side by a double band of dots, a band of tongues above, with rays above the foot
18 in. (47 cm) high
attributed to the hephaistos painter
circa mid 5th century b.c.
The A-side with four komasts, including a bearded man moving right playing a lyre, a youth holding a staff up high in his left hand, moving right but gesturing back toward the lyre player, a draped maenad walking right playing the flute, and facing her a bearded man holding a staff horizontally in his right hand and an amphora over his shoulder in his left hand, with elongated lotus bud chain on the neck; the B-side with four draped youths; with lotus bud chain on the upper surface of the rim, a palmette on the handle-plates, a double band of dots on the side of the rim, the scenes framed on the side by a double band of dots, a band of tongues above, with rays above the foot
18 in. (47 cm) high
Literature
Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, p. 1115, no. 23.