Lot Essay
Asteas was one of the most influential Paestan vase painters, and probably the tutor of the Python Painter.
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ANOTHER PROPERTY
A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO EARLY ASTEAS, CIRCA 360-350 B.C.
Details
A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO EARLY ASTEAS, CIRCA 360-350 B.C.
One side with Dionysos, seated, wearing a cloak draped around his waist and sandals, a wreath in his hair, wearing a dotted bandolier and bracelets, holding a thyrsos in his proper right hand and a laden phiale in his left, an altar behind, grape bunch in the field, the other side with a dancing maenad, wearing a flowing peplos, which has slipped off her left shoulder revealing her left breast, wearing earrings and beaded necklace, hair bound with a berried wreath, holding a tympanum in her left hand and a thyrsos raised in her right, a scrolling foliate stem in the field, a band of wave below, laurel band below the rim, palmettes and scrolling tendrils below the handles, details in added white, yellow and red
13 in. (33 cm.) high
ATTRIBUTED TO EARLY ASTEAS, CIRCA 360-350 B.C.
One side with Dionysos, seated, wearing a cloak draped around his waist and sandals, a wreath in his hair, wearing a dotted bandolier and bracelets, holding a thyrsos in his proper right hand and a laden phiale in his left, an altar behind, grape bunch in the field, the other side with a dancing maenad, wearing a flowing peplos, which has slipped off her left shoulder revealing her left breast, wearing earrings and beaded necklace, hair bound with a berried wreath, holding a tympanum in her left hand and a thyrsos raised in her right, a scrolling foliate stem in the field, a band of wave below, laurel band below the rim, palmettes and scrolling tendrils below the handles, details in added white, yellow and red
13 in. (33 cm.) high
Provenance
Dr Ulrich Mueller collection, Zurich, 1970s.
with Frank Sternberg AG, Zurich, 1992.
with Frank Sternberg AG, Zurich, 1992.
Brought to you by
Francesca Hickin
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