AN APULIAN RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER BY THE PAINTER OF LECCE 660,

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AN APULIAN RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER BY THE PAINTER OF LECCE 660,
Side A: showing a draped woman on the left holding a cista in her right hand and a tympanum in her left, moving towards a naked satyr who looks back at her, holding a lighted torch in his right hand and a situla in his left, flowers and a hanging fillet in the field
Side B: showing two standing male figures, each wearing an himation and holding a staff, flanking an altar
palmettes under the handles, the main scenes bordered by a band of meander below and a laurel leaf frieze above, remains of ancient lead repairs on rim, repaired, 4th Century B.C.
14½in. (36.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, I, Oxford, 1978, p. 323, no. 12/48, pl. 100.4

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