Lot Essay
For the painter see J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters, Oxford, 1963, p. 1441.
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ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF LOUVRE G 521, CIRCA 390-370 B.C.
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF LOUVRE G 521, CIRCA 390-370 B.C.
The obverse with a Dionysiac scene, the youthful Dionysos nude but for a chlamys draped over his shoulders, holding a flaming torch in his right hand, his head thrown back, his left hand reaching up, a maenad playing the auloi standing in front, with satyrs wearing wreaths and playing the auloi on either side; the reverse with three standing draped youths, two holding strigils, the central figure holding strigil and aryballos; groundline of meander and chequered square, band of laurel below the rim, scrolling palmettes under handles, details in added white and yellow
13 5/8 in. (34.5 cm.) high
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF LOUVRE G 521, CIRCA 390-370 B.C.
The obverse with a Dionysiac scene, the youthful Dionysos nude but for a chlamys draped over his shoulders, holding a flaming torch in his right hand, his head thrown back, his left hand reaching up, a maenad playing the auloi standing in front, with satyrs wearing wreaths and playing the auloi on either side; the reverse with three standing draped youths, two holding strigils, the central figure holding strigil and aryballos; groundline of meander and chequered square, band of laurel below the rim, scrolling palmettes under handles, details in added white and yellow
13 5/8 in. (34.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Dr. Ulrich Hahn, Cologne.
with Stolper Galleries, Munich, from whom acquired by the present owner in 1984.
with Stolper Galleries, Munich, from whom acquired by the present owner in 1984.
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