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4TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
                                        
                                            AN APULIAN RED FIGURE BELL KRATER 
4TH CENTURY B.C.
Side A: a draped female figure running to the right, wearing necklace, earrings and bracelets, a radiate stephane in her bound hair, holding a ribboned torch and a casket, her head turned back looking towards a naked youth behind her, a cloak over his left arm, holding a situla and a thyrsos, hanging fillets and flowers in the field
Side B: two standing draped youths, each carrying a long staff, a stylized leaf(?) between them, 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 running to the right, wearing necklace, earrings and bracelets, a radiate stephane in her bound hair, holding a ribboned torch and a casket, her head turned back looking towards a naked youth behind her, a cloak over his left arm, holding a situla and a thyrsos, hanging fillets and flowers in the field
Side B: two standing draped youths, each carrying a long staff, a stylized leaf(?) between them, 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. 
                                        
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