AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
THE PROPERTY OF DR. & MRS. RALPH DEAYALA
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER

ATTRIBUTED TO THE GROUP OF STOCKHOLM 1999 CIRCA 400-390 B.C.

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AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
Attributed to the Group of Stockholm 1999
Circa 400-390 B.C.
The obverse with a maenad standing before Dionysos, her belted chiton with undulating folds along the border, a long fillet draped across her body between her hands, the god depicted nude, seated to the right, with a kantharos raised in his right hand, a thyrsos behind him in his left hand, a ball above them in the field; the reverse with two facing draped youths, the youth on the right with a strigil, the youth on the left with a staff; a band of meander with quartered squares below the scenes, with a band of laurel below the rim
11½ in (29.2 cm) high
Provenance
J. Haering, Freiburg
Royal Athena Galleries, New York
Literature
Trendall and Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, 5/92a.

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