Großer rotfiguriger Henkelkrater
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AR1944
| Object: | Calyx Krater |
| Material: | Red-figure pottery. Light red clay with black slip, details partially highlighted in white painting. |
| Size: | Height 50.5 cm (= 20 inch), top diameter 46.5 cm (= 18 inch). |
| Dating: | 4th century BC probably product from western Greece in Attic style. |
| Condition: | Excellent condition worthy of the exhibition in a museum. Glossy black slip, perfectly preserved white painting. Picture and friezes slightly worn. Professionally restored damage that is visible only upon a dedicated inspection and does dot disturb the magnificent impression of the piece when on display. Vases of this size are very rarely found in such a perfect condition. |
| Description: | High, slightly conic discus-shaped pedestal, the lower half without slip. On the top side of the discus oak leaf decoration. High calyx-like foot that opens into the bell-shaped body of the vase. High body that strongly broadens towards the top, prominent lip. Two high handles reaching to about the half height of the vase. A broad ribbon composed of a meander framed by blade friezes forms the bottom frame for the figure frieze. On the top, the composition is limited by a laurel ribbon on the lower side of the lip. The figure frieze is a single circumferential composition, the beginning and end is marked by a high column arranged behind one of the handles. To the right of the column stands a round-bellied philosopher with laurel wreath and a long coat, leaning on a long laurel branch behind him. Above his head winged Eros with a white laurel wreath holding a stick, another Eros holding grapes is flying away. Between the Erots and facing the philosopher is a young woman holding a bowl in the left and a crown-shaped basket in the right. Behind her an altar or column base, behind it a Satyr standing left, the right hand above the column, in the raised left a fan. Behind the Satyr is a laurel bush, grapes above. Over the handle and the upper part of the image a man lying to the left, holding a long stick in the left, below him another, smaller Satyr holding a whip. Other decorative elements such as music instruments, a krater and a columnn base are arranged throughout the composition. The last segment shows a woman sitting to the right, holding a wreath in the left, the feet on a suppedaneum, over her another Eros. To the right from the woman is a young man holding a thyrsos. Nike if hovering over the boy, an Eros holding her dress. The decoration exhibits a strong stylistic relation to the famous Gnathia technique. |
| References: | For the shape and selected elements of the decoration, see e.g.: Getty Museum, Inv. Nr. 96.AE.30 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Paris, France Fasc. 16: Musee National Rodin (1945) S. 33; Pl. 23.5-6 |
| 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 and 1983, 3 volumes) 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) |
| Provenance: | Acquired 2012 in a traditional German auction house. Ex German collection. |
| Authenticity: | We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of every artefact, all items are subject to our lifetime return policy on authenticity. A Certificate of Authenticity will be issued. |