CIRCA 450 B.C.
Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE COLUMN-KRATER
circa 450 b.c.
The A-Side with a draped figure of Dionysus in the center walking right but looking left, holding vines and a thyrsus in his left hand, his right arm outstretched holding a kantharos toward a satyr with an oenochoe who prepares to pour wine for the god, to the right a satyr playing the double-pipes, the neck with an elongated bud frieze; the B-Side with three draped youths, the two on the left facing each other with hands outstretched in conversation, to the right, an on-looker resting on a staff; the rim with a band of lions and boars in black silhouette, a band of tongue on the shoulder, vertical bands of ivy framing each scene
15¾ in. (39.8 cm.) high
circa 450 b.c.
The A-Side with a draped figure of Dionysus in the center walking right but looking left, holding vines and a thyrsus in his left hand, his right arm outstretched holding a kantharos toward a satyr with an oenochoe who prepares to pour wine for the god, to the right a satyr playing the double-pipes, the neck with an elongated bud frieze; the B-Side with three draped youths, the two on the left facing each other with hands outstretched in conversation, to the right, an on-looker resting on a staff; the rim with a band of lions and boars in black silhouette, a band of tongue on the shoulder, vertical bands of ivy framing each scene
15¾ in. (39.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 8 December 1986, lot 328.
Exhibited
Melbourne, Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, 1989-1997.