A Lucanian Red-figured Bell Krater, attributed to the Creusa Painter, late 5th/early 4th Century B.C.

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Description

A Lucanian Red-figured Bell Krater, attributed to the Creusa Painter
Diameter 12 5/8 in. 32.1 cm.

painted with Apollo (or Orpheus?) seated and playing the lyre, Artemis holding a bow and wreath standing before him, a veiled chiton-clad lady holding a wreath and phiale behind, three conversing youths on the reverse.

Provenance

Major Alexander Ronald George Strutt, 4th Lord Belper (1912-1999), Kingston Hall, Nottingham (Christie's, London, July 6th, 1976, no. 46, illus.)
Sotheby's, New York, May 20th, 1982, no. 175, illus.
Estate of Sigmund S. Harrison, Philadelphia (Sotheby's, New York, June 23rd, 1989, no. 195, illus.)

Literature

A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily, Supplement 3, Oxford, 1983, no. C52

Catalogue Note

"During the construction of Kingston Hall between 1840 and 1844, one of the largest pagan cemeteries in England was discovered, and it may have been this that stimulated the interest of the Strutt family in antiquity. The nucleus of the collection of Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities appears to have been vases given to the mother of the first Lord Belper, then Mr. Edward Strutt by Sir Sandford Graham, though only in a few cases is it known where the latter obtained them" (Christie's, London, op. cit., p. 13).