PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
A Lucanian Red-figured Pottery Bell Krater, attributed to the Painter of Taranto 102547, circa 400-380 B.C.
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
A Lucanian Red-figured Pottery Bell Krater, attributed to the Painter of Taranto 102547, circa 400-380 B.C.
painted in front with a young satyr holding the hand of a woman seated on a rock and presenting her with a mirror, a youth holding a strigil behind him, and in back with three draped youths.
Height 38.3cm., 15⅛in.
Münzen und Medaillen, Basel;
Artsby 1881, Strasbourg;
acquired from the above on December 6th, 1976.
A. D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily. Third Supplement (Consolidated), London, 1983, p. 28, no. *371a, pl. IV, 5-6;
L. Todesco, ed., La ceramica a figure rosse della Magna Grecia e della Sicilia, 1. Produzioni, 2012, p. 114 (mentioned);
S. Barresi, "I vasi del Gruppo Intermedio e la prima fase della ceramografia italiota in ambito ionico: proposta di analisi e brevi considerazioni", in: M. Denoyelle et al., eds., La céramique apulienne, Naples, 2005, note 34 (mentioned).
On the Painter of Taranto 102547 see A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, 1967, pp. 73-74, 690, and Todesco, op. cit., 2012, pp. 113-114, no. II.1.8.
In his 1983 publication, Trendall points out a strong stylistic resemblance between the draped youths on the reverse and those depicted on a bell krater in the Archaeological Museum in Madrid (inv. no. 32681: Trendall, op. cit., 1967, p. 73, no. 371, pl. 34, 3).
