ATTRIBUTED TO THE PISTICCI PAINTER, CIRCA 430 B.C.

Details

A LUCANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PISTICCI PAINTER, CIRCA 430 B.C.
The obverse with Eros standing at the center, playing an aulos, depicted nude and crowned in a laurel wreath, his wings outstretched behind, flanked by two standing draped youths, each wreathed and holding staffs; the reverse with two youths facing a bearded man, one holding a spear, one holding a scepter; a band of meander with saltire squares below the scenes, laurel above
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high

Provenance

with Harlan J. Berk Ltd, Chicago, 1996.

Literature

A.J. Paul, Exhibition catalogue, A View into Antiquity: Pottery from the Collection of William Suddaby and David Meier, Tampa, 2001, no. 26, illus.

Exhibited

Tampa Museum of Art, A View into Antiquity: Pottery from the Collection of William Suddaby and David Meier, 14 October 2001-13 January 2002.

Lot Essay

Trendall notes (The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily, p. 9) that "the Pisticci Painter, who takes his name from the small Lucanian town where several of his vases were found, is the first of the local South Italian vase-painters and must have begun his work c. 440 B.C. to judge from the parallels with Attic models, to which his earliest vases are particularly close."

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