CIRCA 330 B.C.

Details

AN APULIAN RED FIGURE COLUMN KRATER ATTRIBUTED TO THE TRIESTE OWL GROUP
CIRCA 330 B.C.
Side A: seated winged figure of Eros with a phiale in extended left hand and hanging rosette chain, facing a standing female, holding out a dish laden with cake and a bunch of grapes held behind, details in added white and yellow
Side B: two draped youths each with staff, wearing white headbands, a wreath in field above and fan palmettes in upper corners
Double row of dots framing each panel, with band of tongue above and meander with quartered squares below, the neck with band of ivy, rays around the rim with scroll on the overhang, the handle-plates with palmettes
16 7/8 in. (42.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Van Berchem collection, Switzerland; acquired in the 1960s (see lots 86-97).

Exhibited

Art antique, Collections privées de Suisse Romande, Musée Rath, Geneva, 1975.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium Please note that the lots of Iranian origin are subject to U.S. trade restrictions which currently prohibit the import into the United States. Similar restrictions may apply in other countries.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
J. Dörig, Art antique, Collection privées de Suisse Romande, Geneva, 1975, no. 280.
A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, Vol. II, Oxford, 1982, p. 748, no. 186.

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