A Lucanian Red-Figured Bell Krater, attributed to the Vaste Painter, circa 430-400 B.C.

painted with a youth holding a stick moving swiftly to right in pursuit of a woman holding a sash or fillet, the ends of his cloak held by a second woman at left, three conversing draped youths on the reverse, two holding staffs.

Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, acquired in 1819 (Christie’s, London, Greek and Etruscan Vases from Nostell Priory, April 30th, 1975, no. 25, illus.)
Long Island Private Collection (Sotheby’s, New York, June 12th, 1993, no. 127, illus.)
Japanese Private Collection

Abbé H. Campbell, no. 21
A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily, Oxford, 1967, p. 60, no. 301

Very good and intact. Very minor chips and abrasions on the foot.
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Attributed by A.D. Trendall to the Vaste Painter.