ATTRIBUTED TO THE RIBBESBÜTTEL PAINTER, CIRCA 380-360 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE RIBBESBÜTTEL PAINTER, CIRCA 380-360 B.C.
11 1/8 in. (28.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Gabrielli Collection, Rome.
A. Hamburger, Frankfurt.
Arthur Löbbecke (1850-1932), Ribbesbüttel and Braunschweig, Germany.
Sammlung A. Loebbecke-Braunschweig; Werke Antiker Kunst, Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 12 November 1930, lot 459.
Private Collection, Wichita.
Art Glass, Antiques and Antiquities, Soülis Auctions, Kansas City, 24 April 2022, lot 601.

Literature

A. Greifenhagen, ed., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Deutschland, Braunschweig-Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Munich, 1940, p. 30, pl. 22, no. P3, 3-5.
J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figured Vase-Painters, second edition, vol. II, Oxford, 1963, p. 1438, no. 1.
K. Kathariou, To ergastērio tou zōgraphou tou Meleagrou kai hē epochē tou : paratērēseis stēn attikē keramikē tou prōtou tetartou tou 4 ou ai. p.Ch., Thessaloniki, 2002, p. 275, pl. 80a-b.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 218082.

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Lot Essay

This bell-krater is the name piece of the Ribbesbüttel Painter, who takes his name from the town where a previous owner, Arthur Löbbecke (1850-1932), once resided. Although J.D. Beazley (op. cit.) assigned only two works to the painter, he belonged to a flourishing tradition at the end of the Attic sequence rendered in the “Kerch Style,” named from the site in eastern Crimea where a number of late red-figured vases were discovered (see p. 190 in J. Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period).

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