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PROPERTY OF PROFESSOR AND MRS. SID PORT
A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE AMYKOS PAINTER CIRCA 410-400 B.C.
Details
A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
Attributed to the Amykos Painter
Circa 410-400 B.C.
The obverse with a nude youth with a staff held behind his back, offering a lyre to a youth seated upon a stepped throne, with a mantle draped around his waist, both youths with short curly hair, a fillet hanging above; the reverse with two draped youths flanking a column, one holding a staff, the other with his staff leaning against the column; a band of meander below the scenes, a band of laurel under the rim
11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm) high
Attributed to the Amykos Painter
Circa 410-400 B.C.
The obverse with a nude youth with a staff held behind his back, offering a lyre to a youth seated upon a stepped throne, with a mantle draped around his waist, both youths with short curly hair, a fillet hanging above; the reverse with two draped youths flanking a column, one holding a staff, the other with his staff leaning against the column; a band of meander below the scenes, a band of laurel under the rim
11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm) high
Provenance
Superior Galleries, Los Angeles
Literature
Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Third Supplement (Consolidated), no. 1/201b.