AN APULIAN RED-FIGURE VOLUTE-KRATER

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
Provenance
German Market
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.