An Attic Red-Figured Bell Krater, attributed to the Toya Painter, circa 350-330 B.C.

painted with the figure of a goddess, probably Artemis, wearing a long embroidered short-sleeved chiton, cloak, earrings, and rayed diadem, standing and holding flaming torches, and flanked on her right by seated Apollo holding a laurel bough, a goddess (Leto?) behind him, and on her left by seated Dionysos holding a thyrsos, a goddess (Ariadne or Semele?) behind him, three draped conversing youths on the reverse, the details in added white, pink, and golden brown.

Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, probably acquired in 1819 (Christie’s, London, Greek and Etruscan Vases from Nostell Priory, April 30th, 1975, no. 52, illus.)
Long Island Private Collection (Sotheby’s, New York, June 12th, 1993, no. 120, illus.)
Japanese Private Collection

J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Oxford, 1963, p. 1448, no. 6
T.H. Carpenter, T. Mannack, and M. Mendonca, Beazley Addenda, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1989, p. 379
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 218168, illus.

Excellent and intact. There is a small chip on the rim, approximately 1/2 inch long, which appears to have occurred before firing in antiquity. A few very minor scratches and nicks elsewhere on the rim and foot.
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Attributed by Peter Corbett to the Toya Painter.

The Toya Painter is named after two vases in Madrid, found at Toya in the province of León.