GROUP OF THE COPENHAGEN DANCER, CIRCA 340-320 B.C.

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AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED PELIKE
GROUP OF THE COPENHAGEN DANCER, CIRCA 340-320 B.C.
The obverse with Aphrodite in a chariot drawn by two winged Erotes, possibly Pothos and Himeros, one holding a thymiatherion in his left hand and touching the wrist of Aphrodite with his right, the other holding a phiale in one hand, and adding incense to the thymiaterion with the other, Aphrodite wearing a peplos that exposes her right side, holding a fillet in each hand, a youthful couple seated below, likely a bride and groom, the youth to the right, wearing a himation that exposes his torso, holding a laurel branch and lyre in one hand, and resting his elbow on the hand of his bride before him, his gaze angled up towards the approaching goddess, the bride in a chiton and himation, her face three-quarter frontal, laurel and flowering plants in the field, bands of palmettes and lotus buds, ovolo, and beach-nut pendants above; the reverse with a youth seated between two draped females, the youth nude but for a chlamys over his thighs, his long hair bound in a fillet, holding a phiale and a wreath, a nude spread-winged Eros above with a phiale and a wreath, flowers, rosettes and phialai in the field; a band of laurel centered by a rosette above; a band of meander with dotted crossed squared encircling below, palmette complexes below the handles, details in added white and yellow
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high

来源

with Atlantis Antiquities, New York, 1990 (Greek and Roman Art, no. 9).
Hesperia Arts Auction, New York, 27 November 1990, Part II, lot 38.

出版

A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, London, 1991, no. 18/134a, pl. XXXIX,1.

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The Group of the Copenhagen Dancer, which is closely associated with the Darius Painter, takes its name from a pelike in Copenhagen. According to Trendall (The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, p. 508), the Group "includes several vases which may be ascribed to a single hand, together with some others extremely close in style. It is not easy to distinguish the work of the painter himself from that of the Darius Painter, since there are so many elements common to both...".

For the subject of Aphrodite in a chariot drawn by two Erotes, see the pelike in Turin and another in Compiègne, both by the Darius Painter, nos. 18/25 and 18/26 in Trendall, RVApII.