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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
KERCH STYLE, CIRCA 350 B.C.
The obverse with a multi-figured scene centered by a standing nude youth, a chlamys secured with a circular brooch around his neck, a petasos hanging over his shoulders, holding two spears in his left hand, a diadem in his curly locks, facing frontal but looking to his right towards a standing draped woman, a radiate stephane in her hair, to their right a nude youth seated on his chlamys, looking back, wearing a petasos and holding a staff, a seated nude youth to the far left looking on, holding two spears, a youth driving a team of four horses above, a standing woman and a youth to the far right, the woman wearing a sleeveless chiton, a radiate stephane and a sphendome, her right arm upraised, the youth wearing a pilos helmet and a chlamys secured by a circular brooch; rosettes in the field; the reverse with three draped men; a band of meander and checkered squares encircling below the scenes, laurel below the rim, ovolo on the rim, palmette complexes below the handles, dotted ovolo around the handle roots; details in added white and yellow
15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm.) high
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