Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
CIRCA 420 B.C.
The obverse with two pairs of facing draped figures, to the left a bearded male and a youth, each crowned in a laurel wreath, the bearded figure with his shoulders and upper torso nude, a himation draped around his lower body, leaning on a staff, gesturing with his right hand toward his face, the youth wearing a chlamys with a striped hem, pinned at his right shoulder, two spears in his raised right hand, to the right a female and a youth, the female wearing a peplos with overfold and a striped hem, an oinochoe in her lowered right hand, a phiale before her in her raised left, the youth crowned in a laurel wreath, wearing a chlamys pinned at his right shoulder, two spears in his lowered left hand, gesturing with his right; the reverse with three draped youths, two facing right, one facing left, gesturing with his right arm; a band of meander and checkered squares below each scene, laurel below the rim, dotted ovolo around the handle roots
13 3/8 in. (34 cm.) high
Provenance
Art Market, Freiburg, 1988.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1990 (One Thousand Years of Ancient Greek Vases, from Greece, Etruria & Southern Italy, no. 68). Anonymous sale; Superior Galleries, Beverly Hills, 2-4 June 1996, lot 2043.
Art Market, Kansas City, 1998.
Private Collection, Florida.
with Kodner Galleries, Dania Beach, Florida, 2013.
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