Lot 21
  • 21

An Apulian Red-Figured Bell Krater, attributed to the Gravina Painter, circa early 4th Century B.C.

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • An Apulian Red-Figured Bell Krater, attributed to the Gravina Painter
  • terracotta
  • Height 13 1/8 in. 33.3 cm.
decorated with Dionysos moving to his right and holding a thyrsos, preceded by a silen holding a flaming torch and situla and followed by a maenad dancing ecstatically, holding a tambourine and wearing a diaphanous chiton, three draped youths on the reverse, details in added white and yellow.

Provenance

Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, acquired in 1819 (Christie’s, London, Greek and Etruscan Vases from Nostell Priory, April 30th, 1975, no. 21, illus.)
Long Island Private Collection (Sotheby’s, New York, June 12th, 1993, no. 123, illus.)
Japanese Private Collection

Literature

Abbé H. Campbell, no. 5
A.D. Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, vol. I, Oxford, 1978, p. 33, no. 2/4
Bloomingdale's catalogue, "Autumn Pleasures," 1986, p. 2

Condition

Excellent, intact.
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Catalogue Note

Attributed by A.D. Trendall to the Gravina Painter.