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A Greek red-figure bell krater image 1
A Greek red-figure bell krater image 2
Lot 40

A Greek red-figure bell krater

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

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A Greek red-figure bell krater
Apulia, attributed to the Snub-Nose Group, circa 4th Century B.C.
Decorated on side (a) with a naked satyr moving to the left, holding a patera in his left hand and a flaming torch in his right, behind him a naked youth holding a situla in his right hand, a thyrsus in his left hand wrapped with his himation, with foliate sprigs, ivy leaves and rosettes in the field and a meander baseline, side (b) with two facing himation-clad male figures, a column between them and a smaller one to the far right, ivy leaves and two halters in the field, with a band of laurel beneath the rim and rays around the handles and palmettes beneath, 39.4cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Robert Knight Collection, UK, acquired in 2006.
Bonhams, 27 April 2006, lot 102.
English private collection, acquired from a London dealer between 1997-2002.

Literature:
It has been suggested that this is perhaps by the Painter of Ruvo 407-8. For discussion of the painter and The Snub Nose Group, cf. A.D. Trendall & A. Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, vol. I, Oxford, 1978, pp. 327-8.

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