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A large Greek red-figure bell krater image 1
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Lot 31*

A large Greek red-figure bell krater

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £8,000

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A large Greek red-figure bell krater
Cumae, Campania, circa 4th Century B.C.
Enlivened with white slip, depicting on side (a) four draped women, one holds a tympanum, another a patera and another, seated, pours from an oinochoe, they surround a seated male figure, possibly Dionysus, who is nude apart from garlands around his head, chest, wrists and thigh and leaning on a staff; on side (b) three heavily draped male figures wearing garlands around their heads, 46cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
American private collection, Saratoga Springs, New York, acquired in the 1980s from an Italian family who had moved to New York some decades ago.

Literature:
It has been suggested that the krater may be attributed to the Painter of New York GR 1000, although it is also closely connected with the subsequent Nicholson and Washington Painters. Cf. A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, London, 1967, p.483-6, pl.187.

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