Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE MELEAGER PAINTER, CIRCA 390-380 B.C.
The obverse with a symposium scene, with three beardless youths and two bearded men between, nude but for mantles draped over their legs, wreaths adorning their hair, the leftmost youth with his right arm extended, turning to the gesticulating bearded man behind him, the central youth gazing upwards, his elbow bent above his head, touching the forearm of the bearded man behind him whose right hand rests on the youth's shoulder, the bearded man looking back, two low food-laden tripod tables in front; the reverse with winged Eros at the center, facing right, his arms outstretched to a nude youth with a fillet in his hair, a columnar altar between them, another nude youth facing the god to the left, a rectangular altar between them, fillet in his hair; meander and checkered squares below the scenes, laurel encircling below the rim, dotted ovolo around one handle plate, details in added white
13 ½ in. (34.3 cm.) high
Provenance
with Andre Emmerich, New York.
with Athena GmbH, Munich, acquired from the above, 1997.
Private Collection, O.G., Bavaria.
Antike Kunstobjekte 283, Gerhard Hirsch, Munich, 2012, lot 679.
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