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THE PROPERTY FROM A GENTLEMAN'S COLLECTION
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED VOLUTE-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE BALTIMORE PAINTER, CIRCA 330-320 B.C.
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AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED VOLUTE-KRATER
Attributed to the Baltimore Painter, Circa 330-320 B.C.
The obverse with two figures and a horse within an Ionic naiskos, a bearded man to the left seated on a stool, a mantle draped around his waist, gesturing with his right hand towards a standing youth, nude but for a red cloak tied over his shoulders and a petasos, holding a spear in his right hand, resting his left arm on the horse's back, the reins in his hand, a pilos helmet, cuirass and a ball hanging above, with three female and one male offering bearer around the naiskos, the neck with Helios driving a quadriga of four white horses to the left, framed on either side by tendrils and flowers, a band above with a fillet undulating behind and in front of painted eggs; the reverse with a funerary stele tied with black and white fillets and topped with a kylix, surrounded by three female and one male offering bearer, the neck with a profile head emerging from a flower amidst palmettes and scrolling, a band of laurel above; with a band of meander below the scenes, bands of tongues and ovolo above, a band of wave on the underside of the rim, an additional thin band in white on the obverse, and ovolo on the rim, palmette complexes below each handle, the volutes on the obverse with facing female heads in added white, scrolling on the blinkers, the volutes on the reverse with facing heads, the handles framed by swans heads
42 1/8 (107 cm) high
Attributed to the Baltimore Painter, Circa 330-320 B.C.
The obverse with two figures and a horse within an Ionic naiskos, a bearded man to the left seated on a stool, a mantle draped around his waist, gesturing with his right hand towards a standing youth, nude but for a red cloak tied over his shoulders and a petasos, holding a spear in his right hand, resting his left arm on the horse's back, the reins in his hand, a pilos helmet, cuirass and a ball hanging above, with three female and one male offering bearer around the naiskos, the neck with Helios driving a quadriga of four white horses to the left, framed on either side by tendrils and flowers, a band above with a fillet undulating behind and in front of painted eggs; the reverse with a funerary stele tied with black and white fillets and topped with a kylix, surrounded by three female and one male offering bearer, the neck with a profile head emerging from a flower amidst palmettes and scrolling, a band of laurel above; with a band of meander below the scenes, bands of tongues and ovolo above, a band of wave on the underside of the rim, an additional thin band in white on the obverse, and ovolo on the rim, palmette complexes below each handle, the volutes on the obverse with facing female heads in added white, scrolling on the blinkers, the volutes on the reverse with facing heads, the handles framed by swans heads
42 1/8 (107 cm) high
Provenance
Mitsukoshi Department Store, Japan, 1981