Greatly preserved Apulian bell krater
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Object number
AR2923
| Object: |
Bell krater
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| Material: |
Red clay with black slip and white painting Red-figure style |
| Date: |
4th century BC Late classical - early hellenistic period |
| Description: |
The vase boosts a scene showing a seated young male, turning around. The young male is naked, his curly hair held by a white diadem. His left hand is holding a big bowl, the right hand is holding a wreath. The other areas of this side are covered by decorative design. The second side of the vase shows a big female head, turned left. It is decorated by a white diadem, with a twig on each side of the head. |
| Size: |
Height 237 mm, diameter 262 mm.
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| Condition: |
Generally in very good condition. Two small damages, ca. 1,5cm x 4cm, a piece of the lip has been reattached. Other than that the piece is perfectly preserved.
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| Literature: |
A. D. Trendall, The red-figured vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily (Oxford 1967) A. D. Trendall, The red-figured vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily. Supplements (London 1970, 1973 und 1983, 3 Bände) A. D. Trendall - A. Cambitoglou, The red-figured vases of Apulia. Early and middle Apulian (Oxford 1978) A. D. Trendall - A. Cambitoglou, The red-figured vases of Apulia. Late Apulian (Oxford 1982) A. D. Trendall - A. Cambitoglou, The red-figured vases of Apulia. Supplements (Oxford 1983, 1991 und 1992) A. D. Trendall, Rotfigurige Vasen aus Unteritalien und Sizilien: ein Handbuch (Mainz am Rhein 1990) K. Schauenburg, Studien zur unteritalischen Vasenmalerei (Kiel 1999 - 2010, 14 Bände |
| Provenance: |
Acquired 2016 in a German auction house, ex private collection Tillmann from Rösrath near Cologne, acquired in this collection in 1965.
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| Authenticity: |
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