ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF BM F281 CIRCA 330 B.C
Details
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURE VOLUTE-KRATER
attributed to the painter of bm f281
circa 330 b.c
The A-side with a nude youth standing in an ionic naiskos, his head in profile to the right, looking down at the lyre in his right hand, a red cloak draped over his shoulder, to the left a woman holding a philae and a mirror, and a nude youth with a bunch of grapes and a staff, to the right a nude youth with a wreath and a woman with a cista and a wreath, on the neck a profile head of Pan facing left within a floral setting, the rim with a band of ovolo, with a band of ivy, a thin band of dots, and a band of rosettes below; the B-side with two male and two female offering bearers, a palmette complex on the neck, the rim with a band of ovolo, a band of laurel and a band of wave below; white masks on the volutes, swan heads on the shoulders between a band of tongue above a band of ovolo, palmette complexes below the handles, a band of meander and saltire squares below the scenes, details in added white and yellow
26 7/8 in. (68.3 cm.) high
attributed to the painter of bm f281
circa 330 b.c
The A-side with a nude youth standing in an ionic naiskos, his head in profile to the right, looking down at the lyre in his right hand, a red cloak draped over his shoulder, to the left a woman holding a philae and a mirror, and a nude youth with a bunch of grapes and a staff, to the right a nude youth with a wreath and a woman with a cista and a wreath, on the neck a profile head of Pan facing left within a floral setting, the rim with a band of ovolo, with a band of ivy, a thin band of dots, and a band of rosettes below; the B-side with two male and two female offering bearers, a palmette complex on the neck, the rim with a band of ovolo, a band of laurel and a band of wave below; white masks on the volutes, swan heads on the shoulders between a band of tongue above a band of ovolo, palmette complexes below the handles, a band of meander and saltire squares below the scenes, details in added white and yellow
26 7/8 in. (68.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 23 May 1988, lot 216.
Melbourne, Graham Geddes Collection
Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 10 December 1996, lot 197.
Melbourne, Graham Geddes Collection
Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 10 December 1996, lot 197.
Literature
Trendall and Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, part I, no. 17/62a, pl. XXXI, 5-6.