Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE POTHOS PAINTER, CIRCA 430-420 B.C.
The obverse with seated Dionysos, holding a thrysos in his left hand and kantharos in his right, flanked by two standing draped maenads, the one behind holding a thrysos, the one in front looking to her right, an oinochoe in her right hand and a thrysos in her left, to the right a seated nude satyr, his head turned back, holding a rhyton in his right hand, a standing maenad behind, a thrysos in her left hand and a wreath in her right; the reverse with three standing himation-clad youths, two holding a staff, a band of meander and chequered squares below the scenes, laurel below the rim, details in added white and red
14¼ in. (37.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Lord Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope (1866-1941), Deepdene, Surrey, UK.
Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Greek, Roman & Egyptian Sculpture and Ancient Greek Vases, Being a Portion of The Hope Heirlooms; Christie's, London, 23-24 July 1917, lot 107 (part lot).
Tapeley Park, Devon, UK, acquired at the above sale.
Christie’s, London, 15 April 2015, lot 87 (unsold).
Beazley archive no. 215736.
Literature
J. C. Hoppin, A Handbook of Attic Red-figured Vases, Paris, 1920, vol. II, no. 386. E. M. W. Tillyard, The Hope Vases, Cambridge, 1923, pl. 24, no. 143; and p. 86. J. D. Beazley, Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils, Tubingen, 1925, p. 453, no. 8. J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1963, p. 1188, no. 2.
