Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from an American Private Collection
An Attic Red-figured Column Krater, attributed to the Harrow Painter, late 6th/early 5th Century B.C.
Lot closes
July 5, 02:41 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 GBP
Starting Bid
4,800 GBP
Lot Details
Description
An Attic Red-figured Column Krater
attributed to the Harrow Painter, late 6th/early 5th Century B.C.
painted in front with three robed and bearded men, probably trainers, in a gymnasium, one crouching at left below a strigil and sponge in the field, before him another leaning on his staff and a third standing at right, and in back with two robed youths, one holding a staff, rays above the base, addorsed ivy flanking the scenes and on the outside of the rim, tongues on the shoulder, linked lotus buds on the neck at the front.
Height 31 cm.
Anavian Gallery, Osaka
Kintetsu Department Store, Osaka
Japanese private collection, acquired from the above in the 1980s or 1990s
Christie's, London, April 29th, 2010, no. 45
private collection, Oregon (Christie's, New York, April 21st, 2021, no. 68, illus.)
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Thirty-nine vases are attributed to the Harrow Painter, whom J.D. Beazley called “a poorly equipped painter whose ordinary employment was daubing cheap neck-amphorae and column-kraters with dull and ill-drawn forms.” (Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums, Cambridge, 1918, p. 56). More recent scholarship has taken more kindly to the artist, with J.M. Padgett noting “the Harrow Painter was indeed a minor talent, not withstanding the undeniable charm of some of his works. If, however, one looks beyond the quality of his line and his relatively low standing in the artistic pantheon, one discovers in him many elements of interest and more than a few delightful pictures” (The Harrow Painter with Notes on the Geras Painter, https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0012%3Asection%3D1).
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