Lot 152
152
A GREEK BLACK-GLAZED CALYX-KRATER
PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A GREEK BLACK-GLAZED CALYX-KRATER

SOUTH ITALIAN, CIRCA MID 4TH CENTURY B.C.

Details
A GREEK BLACK-GLAZED CALYX-KRATER
SOUTH ITALIAN, CIRCA MID 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Flaring to the broad rim, the stem of the foot with a fillet, each side of the body with an applied and gilt wreath of a delicately-rendered scrolling grape vine, their stems intertwined above the handles; dotted ovolo on the rim
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1989, lot 153 (part).
with Charles Ede, London, 1993 (Pottery from Athens XIII, no. 28).

Lot Essay

For a similar example see no. 42, p. 45 in Herrmann, In the Shadow of the Acropolis, Popular and Private Art in 4th Century Athens. Although related to the cited Attic example, the characteristics of the fabric of the present piece suggest a South Italian, probably Campanian, manufacture.

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