AN EARLY LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
AN EARLY LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER

ATTRIBUTED TO THE CREUSA PAINTER CIRCA EARLY 4TH CENTURY B.C.

细节
AN EARLY LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
attributed to the creusa painter
circa early 4th century b.c.
The obverse with a Dionysiac scene, the god seated to the right, a mantle with patterned border wrapped around his waist and legs, a dotted fillet and leafy crown in his hair, a thyrsos in his left hand, gripping the handle of a kantharos which he holds out to a maenad who stands before him pouring wine from an oinochoe, the maenad wearing a peplos with a dotted pattern, a broad headband, and a parure of jewelry including pendant earrings, a beaded necklace and snake-headed bracelets, a tambourine hanging between them, a five-leafed plant below, a satyr seated to their left, nude but for boots, his body frontal, his head turned slightly up towards a fawn above and to the left, the satyr holding a kantharos by the handle in his right hand, and a wine-skin in his left, his hair tied in a dotted fillet looped above his left ear, a leafy crown above; the reverse with three draped youths, the figure at the left pouring from an oinochoe, the vessel embellished with a figure in black, the figure in the center with a stick in his hand, and the figure to the right wrapped in his mantle; with a band of meander with crossed squares below, a band of laurel above, superposed palmettes and tendrils below the handles, and dotted egg pattern at the handle roots
127/8 in. (32.7 cm) high
出版
Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily, Supplement I, 15, no. 422a, pl. V,1-2. and Supplement III, 44, no. C4.
Trendall in Leipen, et al., Glimpses of Excellence, A Selection of Greek Vases and Bronzes from the Elie Borowski Collection, no. 18.
展览
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 18 December 1984 to 30 June 1985

拍品专文

According to Trendall (op. cit., p. 24) "this vase is an excellent example of the early work of the Creusa Painter, who belongs to the second generation of Lucanian vase-painters."