AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED STAMNOS

AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED STAMNOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF LOUVRE MNB 114, CIRCA 350-340 B.C.
The obverse with a youthful nude Dionysos seated in the center upon his mantle, a phiale in his left hand, a thyrsos in his right, facing right but looking back toward a standing nude bearded satyr, a fawn skin tied over his left forearm, holding a torch in his left hand, a situla in his right, a standing draped maenad to the right, a tympanum in her right hand, a thyrsos in her left, fillets, a grape cluster and a window in the field; the reverse with a youthful nude satyr, a situla in his left hand, a filleted thyrsos in his right, bandoliers crossing his chest, moving to the left but looking back toward a draped maenad, a filleted torch in her right hand, a thyrsos in her left, fillets and a window in the field, a branch below; a band of meander and dotted cross-squares encircling below, tongues on the shoulders, ivy and berries on the neck, dotted ovolo on the rim, palmettes and tendrils below the handles, radiating lines framing the handle roots, the handles bisected by an applied ring; details in added white
12 in. (31.1 cm.) high