ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF TARANTO 7013 CIRCA 320 B.C.
Details
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURE VOLUTE-KRATER
attributed to the painter of taranto 7013
circa 320 b.c.
The A-Side with a nude youth in added white seated within an ionic naiskos, with a phiale and a hanging fillet in his right hand, his grieves hanging above, a spear in his left hand with his shield leaning against it, with four female offering bearers around the naiskos, the neck with a female head in added white emerging from a campanula flower amidst florals, a band of rosettes and dotted circles and a thin band of bead-and-reel above, the volutes with masks in added white framed by scrolling tendrils; the B-Side with two standing women flanking a stela that is tied with a ribbon, a band of wave below the stela, the neck with a fan palmette with a band of laurel above, masks on the volutes, a band of ovolo on the rim above a band of wave, swan heads on the shoulders with a band of tongues in between, palmette complexes under the handles, a band of meander with saltire squares below the scenes, details in added white, yellow, and red
31 1/8 in. (79 cm.) high
attributed to the painter of taranto 7013
circa 320 b.c.
The A-Side with a nude youth in added white seated within an ionic naiskos, with a phiale and a hanging fillet in his right hand, his grieves hanging above, a spear in his left hand with his shield leaning against it, with four female offering bearers around the naiskos, the neck with a female head in added white emerging from a campanula flower amidst florals, a band of rosettes and dotted circles and a thin band of bead-and-reel above, the volutes with masks in added white framed by scrolling tendrils; the B-Side with two standing women flanking a stela that is tied with a ribbon, a band of wave below the stela, the neck with a fan palmette with a band of laurel above, masks on the volutes, a band of ovolo on the rim above a band of wave, swan heads on the shoulders with a band of tongues in between, palmette complexes under the handles, a band of meander with saltire squares below the scenes, details in added white, yellow, and red
31 1/8 in. (79 cm.) high
Provenance
German Market
Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 19 May 1986, lot 316.
Melbourne, Graham Geddes Collection
Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 19 May 1986, lot 316.
Melbourne, Graham Geddes Collection
Literature
Trendall and Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, vol. II, no. 28/39a.