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    15 May 2002

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    • AN EARLY LUCANIAN RED-FIGURE B
    Lot 392

    AN EARLY LUCANIAN RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER, ATTRIBUTED TO THE AMYKOS PAINTER

    CIRCA 420 B.C.

    Price realised

    GBP 6,462

    Estimate

    GBP 4,000 - GBP 5,000

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    AN EARLY LUCANIAN RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER, ATTRIBUTED TO THE AMYKOS PAINTER
    CIRCA 420 B.C.
    Side A: winged figure of Eros running to his right in pursuit of a woman with outstretched hands, another female figure to his left looks back over her shoulder
    Side B: standing draped youth with staff facing two other youths
    Laurel wreath below the everted rim, a band of meander with crossed squares below each scene
    11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) high

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    Lot Essay

    Cf. A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Oxford, 1967, p. 42, no. 193, pl. 16,1, for a bell krater by the Amykos Painter with similar iconography.

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