Museal erhaltener apulischer Glockenkrater mit Thermolumineszenz-Gutachten
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| Object: | Bell krater (used to mix water into wine) |
| Material: | Red clay with black slip and white painting |
| Size: | Height 37 cm, diameter of the foot 12 cm, diameter at the top 34 cm. |
| Dating: | 2nd half of 4th century BCE, possibly slightly earlier. Apulian. |
| Condition: | Large piece in an excellent condition, worth the exhibition in a museum. No damages or restaurations. Slip shows traces of wearing, very few cracks in the slip under the mouth. |
| Description: | Bell krater, red-figure style. One side shows a woman rushing to the right. The woman turns back and looks into a mirror that she holds in the right hand. The hair is thoroughly dressed into a melon-style hair dress and decorated with a diadem and a bead chain, both painted in white. The long chiton is hold on the right shoulder with a fibula, the belt is shown as another white bead chain. The lady carries a bead necklace and bracelets. Right to her feet is an altar-shaped structure, two tympanona (one large, one smaller) serve as decorating elements. The image is framed by a floral decoration, a baseline forms the lower boundary. The second side has a similar structure. A naked youth with a cloak thrown over his shoulder rushes to the right, to his feet is an identical altar-like structure. The youth turns around and looks back, holding in his right a tympanon and a flute. His hair is dressed with a laurel wreath. On the bottom and right to his head there are two tympanona and floral decoration painted in white. The framing is the same as on the other side. Small horizontal up-turned handles, below palmettes. The rectangular zone above the handles as well as the upper handle parts free of slip. Below the mouth a laurel wreath, below the painting a "laufender Hund". The age of the piece was confirmed by a thermoluminescence analysis from the laboratory Ralf Kotalla, see scan below. |
| References: | A. D. Trendall, The red-figured vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily (Oxford 1967) Pl. 138.4-5 A. D. Trendall - A. Cambitoglou, The red-figured vases of Apulia. 2nd supplement (Oxford 1991) Pl. XXXII.3-4. This piece shows a mythological scene |
| 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: | Bought 2011 in a German auction house. Ex South German collection. |
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