AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER

ATTRIBUTED TO THE NIKIAS PAINTER, CIRCA 420-400 B.C.

細節

AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE NIKIAS PAINTER, CIRCA 420-400 B.C.
The obverse with a sacrifice scene composed of five figures around an altar, all wearing laurel wreaths in celebration of a victory, with a flute player left, a himation draped around his legs and over his left arm, a nude youth holding a phiale and a draped youth gesturing, both standing on either side of the altar, two youths to the right, one nude, one draped, each holding long spits with meat to be roasted above the altar; the reverse with three draped youths, two with staffs, jumping weights above; both sides with a groundline of meander and checkered squares, laurel below the rim, dotted ovolo around the handles
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high

來源

Swiss Art Market, 1960s.
Achermann Collection, Lucerne.

拍品專文

Boardman informs (Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period, p. 167) that the Nikias Painter is named for a potter who signs his name together with the name of his home district in Athens. The potter's "home-pride is answered by many of the painter's scenes, sacrifices, local cult and myth, executed in a competent, fairly non-fussy style, and with a touch of what we, and probably the fifth-century Athenian, would regard as humour."