Lot 143
143
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED COLUMN-KRATER
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED COLUMN-KRATER

ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF THE LOUVRE CENTAUROMACHY, CIRCA 450-440 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED COLUMN-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF THE LOUVRE CENTAUROMACHY, CIRCA 450-440 B.C.
The obverse with four figures from left to right, a satyr playing double auloi facing a maenad holding a thyrsos, another satyr holding a thrysos with a cornucopia in his right hand, facing a maenad tightly wrapped in a himation; the reserve with three draped youths, one holding a strigil, one leaning on a staff; running boars on underside of the rim, a band of linked lotus bud around the neck
15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) high
Provenance
with Galerie Segradakis, Paris.
Private collection, France, acquired between 1950-1960s; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase Painting, Vol. II, Oxford, 1963, p. 1089, no. 15.

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