AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER

ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF LONDON F 64, CIRCA 390-370 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF LONDON F 64, CIRCA 390-370 B.C.
The obverse with Nike driving a quadriga to the left, her wings outspread, youthful Herakles seated beside her, gripping the front of the chariot box, his club in his left hand, a mantle draped over his shoulders, the four horses rearing as they take flight, Hermes before them, stepping forward with his right leg and looking back, a chlamys pinned on his right shoulder, his caduceus in his raised right hand, wearing his characteristic petasos; the reverse with three nude youths, one holding a staff, one a strigil; a band of meander and checkered squares encircling below, laurel below the rim, ovolo around the handle-roots, palmettes below the handles, details in added white
16¼ in. (41.4 cm.) high

Provenance

G. Réal Collection, Ascona, Switzerland, prior to 1962.

Descriptif du lot

According to Robertson (The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens, p. 272), this is a favorite subject of the Painter of London F 64, a member of Beazley's "Plainer Group." For a similar example see fig. 273, in Robertson, op. cit.

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