Perfectly preserved Apulian bell krater with satyr
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Object number
AR2520
| Object: |
Bell krater (large vase used for watering down wine in Ancient Greece)
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| Material: |
Red clay with black slip and white painting
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| Date: |
2nd half 4th century BC Late Classical - early Hellenistic period |
| Description: |
Red-figure bell krater. Large vase used for watering down wine in Ancient Greece. The shape, resembling a bell turned upside down, developed in the 5th century BC. One side shows a woman rushing to the left and turning around, looking into a mirror which she holds in her right hand. She has thoroughly dressed hair ("Melonenfrisur") and wears a diadem made from white plates. The woman wears a girded chiton and rich jewelry (pearl necklace and bracelets). The left arm holds a wreath. From the right, she is approached by a naked Satyr wearing a wreath on his head. The second side shows a cloaked youth standing to the right, holding a wreath in his right hand, and his cloak with the left, and looking onto a large bowl held by a second cloaked youth. Below the scenes a broad meander ribbon, protruding palmettes below the handles. Under the lip laurel wreath. |
| Size: |
Height 39 cm, Diameter 31.5 cm
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| Condition: |
Great condition, worth the exhibition in a museum. Professionally restored damages at lip and foot, otherwise only slightly worn surface, brilliant colors.
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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 volumes |
| Certificate: |
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| Provenance: |
Acquired in 2015 from a German auction house. Ex German Westphalian private collection, in this between the 1960s and 1990s.
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| Authenticity: |
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