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Lot No: 23*
A monumental Gnathian ware volute krater
Apulia, circa 325-300 B.C.
The decoration added in white, yellow and crimson paint, side (a) depicting two standing male figures, the figure on the left a nude youth holding a wreath in his right hand, offering an open casket strewn with a sash, to the figure on the right, draped in a himation with his left leg crossed over his right and leaning on a staff, placing an alabastron in the casket with his right hand, his left arm out to the side holding a fruit, standing on a dotted groundline, the neck with a garland of vine leaves, the strap handles flanked by arching swans heads, the volutes with mascaroons in added white with yellow hair, the reverse undecorated, the mascaroons reserved, 33½in (85cm) high, repaired with some restoration
Sold for £36,000 inclusive of Buyer's Premium
Footnote:
Provenance:
Acquired at Sotheby's London, December 9th, 1985.
Exhibited:
On loan to the University of Melbourne, Australia, March 1985 - February 1994.
Published:
Sotheby's London,
Antiquities, December 9th, 1985, lot 378.
Literature:
Cf. J.R. Green, 'Some Painters of Gnathia Vases',
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, (1968), No. 15, pp. 34-50. T.B.L. Webster, 'Towards a Classification of Apulian Gnathia',
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, (1968), No. 15, pp. 1-33.