ATTRIBUTED TO THE CAIVANO PAINTER, CIRCA 330-320 B.C.

Details

A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE CAIVANO PAINTER, CIRCA 330-320 B.C.
18 7/8 in. (47.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Private Collection, Florida.
Property of a Florida Private Collector; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 17 February 1978, lot 89.

Literature

A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Third Supplement, London, 1983, p. 146, no. 566a, pl. XVI, nos. 1-2.
K. Hamma, ed., The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, San Bernardino, 1989, p. 70, no. 44.
L.C. Carderaro dos Santos, Variações da imagem de Apolo citaredo na cerâmica de influência grega produzida na Campânia entre os séculos V e III a.C. (M.A. diss., Instituto de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Federal de Pelotas), 2016, pp. 158-159, cat. K11.

Exhibited

San Bernardino and Northridge, University Art Galleries, California State University, The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, 5 May 1989-30 March 1990.

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Lot Essay

Hamma (op. cit.) observes that the scene on the obverse probably depicts the Triumph of Apollo after his musical contest with Marsyas, where the god flayed the satyr alive as punishment for his hubris. To the right of the cult statue stands Leto and Apollo, who holds a knife. To the left is a youth with a plectrum and kithara. In the field above is a young satyr with a rhyton and a bearded silen. A similar cult statue can be seen on a now-lost vase depicting the flaying of Marsyas, pl. 6 in W. Hamilton and W. Tischbein, Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vaes, vol IV.

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