A Campanian red-figure pottery bell krater, attributed to the Whiteface Painter, with a bird looking upward, and with speckled body, on the reverse a female head in profile to the left, wearing wreath and necklace, palmettes and foliate motifs beneath each handle, encircling band of vitruvian scroll beneath the everted rim -- 6¾in. (17.2cm.) high, 360-330 B.C.

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A Campanian red-figure pottery bell krater, attributed to the Whiteface Painter, with a bird looking upward, and with speckled body, on the reverse a female head in profile to the left, wearing wreath and necklace, palmettes and foliate motifs beneath each handle, encircling band of vitruvian scroll beneath the everted rim -- 6¾in. (17.2cm.) high, 360-330 B.C.
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
A. D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, supplement III, London, 1983, p. 184, no. 126e

Sold: Christie's London, 20 February 1979, lot 88

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