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CIRCA LATE 5TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED COLUMN-KRATER
Circa Late 5th Century B.C.
The obverse with Dionysus seated on his panther skin, his curling tresses flowing on to his shoulders, holding a thyrsus and grape vines in his right hand, a maenad before him holding her mantle behind her, revealing her body, a panther between them, with a satyr to the left leaning forward, and a satyr to the right with a thyrsus, and a third under the handle; the reverse with two satyrs and a maenad, a large dinos on a stand under the other handle, both sides of the neck with a dog confronting a feline, a band of laurel on the rim, tongue on the shoulders, and egg-and-dart below the scenes
116 in. (28.7 cm) high
Circa Late 5th Century B.C.
The obverse with Dionysus seated on his panther skin, his curling tresses flowing on to his shoulders, holding a thyrsus and grape vines in his right hand, a maenad before him holding her mantle behind her, revealing her body, a panther between them, with a satyr to the left leaning forward, and a satyr to the right with a thyrsus, and a third under the handle; the reverse with two satyrs and a maenad, a large dinos on a stand under the other handle, both sides of the neck with a dog confronting a feline, a band of laurel on the rim, tongue on the shoulders, and egg-and-dart below the scenes
116 in. (28.7 cm) high
Provenance
Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art, Sotheby's New York, 8 June 1984, lot 19