Lot 69
  • 69

An Early Apulian Red-figured Bell Krater, attributed to the Sisyphus Painter, circa late 5th Century B.C.

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • An Early Apulian Red-figured Bell Krater, attributed to the Sisyphus Painter
  • Height 12 7/8 in. 32.7 cm.
finely painted with a lady seated on a chair and holding a tendril, a servant girl holding a jewelry box and mirror before her, a youth leaning on his staff at left, the reverse decorated with three draped youths, two of them holding staffs, meander and crossed squares below the scenes, a wreath beneath the rim.

Provenance

Merrin Gallery, New York, 1980s

Literature

A.D. Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, vol. 1: Early and Middle Apulian, Oxford, 1978, p. 435, no. 63a (Addenda)

Catalogue Note

For a related scene by the same painter see Trendall, ARV, pl. 6,1-2. For the reverse see ARV, p. 17, no. 62.