A Large Apulian Red-figured Bell Krater, circa 380-370 B.C.

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

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Description

A Large Apulian Red-figured Bell Krater
Height 17 1/2 in. 44.5 cm.

painted with a youth seated on his cloak and holding a laurel branch and patera, the youth on the left holding a thyrsos and a torch, the maenad on the right holding a wreath or crown and a thyrsos, a leopard skin hanging from her arm, the reverse painted with three draped youths, two holding staffs.

Provenance

H. Voigt Collection, Essen, Germany
Jean-David Cahn, AG, Auktion 2: Kunstwerke der Antike, June 26th, 2000, no. 88, illus.

Catalogue Note

For related examples by followers of the Dijon Painter, such as the Group of Vatican V14, see Trendall ARV, vol. 1, pp. 225ff, pls. 70-71.