Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL KRATER
CIRCA SECOND QUARTER OF THE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
The obverse with a scene of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the central figure of Iakkhos wearing short patterned long-sleeved chitoniskos and boots, ivy wreath in his hair, holding two torches, a satyr seated to the left with his head turned back, holding a bakhoi (branch) in his right hand, by his side a meanad wearing a patterned chiton, a seated nude youth to the right holding a bakhoi in his left hand, his right arm upraised, a female to the right wearing patterned chiton, holding the drapery at her shoulder with her right hand, her hair bound in a sakkos, a large female bust of Demeter, emerging from the ground line, face tilted up towards Iakkhos, wearing diadem in her curling hair, tresses falling onto her shoulders, bakhoi in the field, the reverse with three himation clad youths, meander and chequered square ground line beneath each scene, laurel under the rim, details in added white and red
15¼ in. (38.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Robert Forrer collection (1866-1947), Strasburg, Germany. Forrer was a Swiss archaeologist, antiquarian, collector, and writer based in Strasborg from 1887. For a number of years he was curator of the Strasborg Archaeological Museum.
Private collection, France, acquired 1970s.
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