Property of a Melbourne Private Collector
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURE VOLUTE-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE DE SCHULTHESS PAINTER CIRCA 335 B.C.
Details
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURE VOLUTE-KRATER
attributed to the de schulthess painter
circa 335 b.c.
The A-side with a fully-armed warrior in a plumed helmet on a rearing horse, a spear in his right hand, preparing to dispatch a nude man to his right who crouches on his right leg, his left leg extended, a rock in his right hand, a mantle draped over his left hand, shield and pilos helmet hanging above, the group within an ionic naiskos, to the left a standing draped female with wreath in hand, to the right a standing nude youth with a strigil in his hand, the neck with two griffins attacking a stag, blood pouring from the bite of the griffin on the right, a band of swastika-meander above, with a thin band of ovolo along the rim, a band of wave and another of bead-and-reel below the lip; the B-side with two seated women above a man and woman approaching an altar, a palmette complex on the neck with a band of laurel above, dots along the rim, a band of scrolling tendrils below; white Io masks on the volutes, swan heads on the shoulders in white on the A-side, black on the B-side, a band of tongue on the shoulders, palmette complexes below the handles, a band of meander with saltire squares below the scenes, with details in added white and yellow
27¼ in. (69.2 cm.) high
attributed to the de schulthess painter
circa 335 b.c.
The A-side with a fully-armed warrior in a plumed helmet on a rearing horse, a spear in his right hand, preparing to dispatch a nude man to his right who crouches on his right leg, his left leg extended, a rock in his right hand, a mantle draped over his left hand, shield and pilos helmet hanging above, the group within an ionic naiskos, to the left a standing draped female with wreath in hand, to the right a standing nude youth with a strigil in his hand, the neck with two griffins attacking a stag, blood pouring from the bite of the griffin on the right, a band of swastika-meander above, with a thin band of ovolo along the rim, a band of wave and another of bead-and-reel below the lip; the B-side with two seated women above a man and woman approaching an altar, a palmette complex on the neck with a band of laurel above, dots along the rim, a band of scrolling tendrils below; white Io masks on the volutes, swan heads on the shoulders in white on the A-side, black on the B-side, a band of tongue on the shoulders, palmette complexes below the handles, a band of meander with saltire squares below the scenes, with details in added white and yellow
27¼ in. (69.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 12 December 1988, lot 165.
Melbourne, Graham Geddes Collection
Melbourne, Graham Geddes Collection
Literature
Trendall and Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, no. 17/76, pl. xxxii,1-2.
Schauenburg, "Flügelgestalten auf unteritalischen Grabvasen," JdI, 1987, pp. 199-282.
Schauenburg, "Flügelgestalten auf unteritalischen Grabvasen," JdI, 1987, pp. 199-282.