Lot Essay
PUBLISHED: Métamorphoses, pp. 79 and 342.
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THIRD QUARTER OF THE 5TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE COLUMN KRATER ATTRIBUTED TO THE NAPLES PAINTER
THIRD QUARTER OF THE 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Side A: the two Dioskouroi, Castor and Pollux, mounted on horses which are galloping to the right, each bearing a spear and wearing a cloak, a draped youth between them, looking back
Side B: a young woman talking with two ephebes
The scenes with dotted side borders, a tongued frieze above, the neck with frieze of interlinked lotus buds with dots on side A only, dotted bands around lip, lotus bud frieze around rim with large palmette flanked by tendrils atop each handle
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
THIRD QUARTER OF THE 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Side A: the two Dioskouroi, Castor and Pollux, mounted on horses which are galloping to the right, each bearing a spear and wearing a cloak, a draped youth between them, looking back
Side B: a young woman talking with two ephebes
The scenes with dotted side borders, a tongued frieze above, the neck with frieze of interlinked lotus buds with dots on side A only, dotted bands around lip, lotus bud frieze around rim with large palmette flanked by tendrils atop each handle
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
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