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4TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN APULIAN RED FIGURE BELL KRATER
4TH CENTURY B.C.
Side A: a draped female figure sits on a rocky outcrop, wearing pendant necklace, earrings, and bracelets, her hair bound up in a kekryphalos, with top-knot emerging above, a radiate stephane above her forehead, holding a large dish with cakes in outstretched left hand, a tambourine in her right, she faces the standing figure of a youth, leaning on his staff, naked save for cloak wrapped around his left arm, fillet with trailing ribbons in his hair, he holds a dotted wreath in his outstretched right hand, a laurel branch between them, a large dotted fillet, flower and two buchrania in the field
Side B: two draped youths, each carrying a long staff, standing between a stele, a writing tablet bound with horizontal stylus above
Meander frieze with crossed and dotted squares below, a laurel wreath below the rim, palmettes with scrolling tendrils below each handle, details in added white and yellow
15 in. (38 cm.) high
4TH CENTURY B.C.
Side A: a draped female figure sits on a rocky outcrop, wearing pendant necklace, earrings, and bracelets, her hair bound up in a kekryphalos, with top-knot emerging above, a radiate stephane above her forehead, holding a large dish with cakes in outstretched left hand, a tambourine in her right, she faces the standing figure of a youth, leaning on his staff, naked save for cloak wrapped around his left arm, fillet with trailing ribbons in his hair, he holds a dotted wreath in his outstretched right hand, a laurel branch between them, a large dotted fillet, flower and two buchrania in the field
Side B: two draped youths, each carrying a long staff, standing between a stele, a writing tablet bound with horizontal stylus above
Meander frieze with crossed and dotted squares below, a laurel wreath below the rim, palmettes with scrolling tendrils below each handle, details in added white and yellow
15 in. (38 cm.) high
Provenance
European private collection, acquired at auction circa 1995.
Special notice
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