An Early Apulian Red-figured Bell Krater, attributed to the Painter of the Long Overfalls (Calvet Sub-Group), circa 380-370 B.C.

painted in front with Silenos playing the double flute and a seated nude youth holding a thyrsos, and on the reverse with two draped youths, one holding a strigil, the other a staff.

Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, Switzerland
Lincoln Higgie, Chicago Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois
acquired from the above by the present owner prior to 1975

Dale Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, vol. 1, Oxford, 1978, p. 82, no. 3/117, pls. 28,5-6

Intact except for a third of the rim which is repaired from two fragments, joins are very clean except for an area with small losses around the break under the rim above the lady holding the strigil, small areas of incrustation on the rim and behind each handle on the body, entire surface appears to have been lightly encrusted and cleaned, both figures on main scene wear fillets which appear to have been applied in a darker glaze which seems to have been used also for the double flute, small areas of misfiring on one handle and between the two draped figures.
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