Description
LARGE APULIAN GOBLET KRATER WITH RED FIGURES DATE: 330-310 BC. MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE: pinkish figulina clay, shiny black paint, white and yellow overpainting; modelled by fast lathe. Everted lip with distinct folded rim, cylindrical basin with concave profile, cylindrical stem with ring in relief, echino foot molded, stick handles, set horizontally on the maximum expansion and twisted upward. ADDITIONAL DECORATION: under the lip vine of olive leaves; under the figurative scene theory of rosettes on one side and palmettes on the other; painted handles and foot except for the outer rim. DECORATION: side A) scene of gynoecium, in the center a woman seated left on a stool, richly attired, with her feet on an elaborate suppedaneo is intent on playing a sumptuous lyre; In front of and behind her two maids, also elegantly dressed with kekryphalos from which comes out a vaporous tuft of hair, stephane radiata, earrings, armillas on the wrists and long embroidered robes offer to the mistress a phiale from which hangs a garland of flowers and an embroidered tenia; one of the two young women has a long tirso and the other a flabello. Side B) a young man seated to the right on his cloak, naked, with a garland in his hair holds in his right hand a phiale from which hangs an embroidered tapeworm and a tyrant in his left hand; in front and behind him two handmaidens, dressed in an analogous way to those of the other side offer him a grape and a tenia and the other a garland and a tirso; in the field three tenias and phytomorphic motives STATE OF CONSERVATION: integral PRODUCTION: Apulian pottery with red figures, Painter of the Underworld. DIMENSIONS: h. cm 35; diam. mouth cm 33 ORIGIN: private collection, Bari CFR.: A. D.Trendall, A. Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia II, Oxford 1982 The lot, according to Italian law, is not exportable / This lot, according to Italian law, can not be exported
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LARGE APULIAN GOBLET KRATER WITH RED FIGURES DATE: 330-310 BC. MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE: pinkish figulina clay, shiny black paint, white and yellow overpainting; modelled by fast lathe. Everted lip with distinct folded rim, cylindrical basin with concave profile, cylindrical stem with ring in relief, echino foot molded, stick handles, set horizontally on the maximum expansion and twisted upward. ADDITIONAL DECORATION: under the lip vine of olive leaves; under the figurative scene theory of rosettes on one side and palmettes on the other; painted handles and foot except for the outer rim. DECORATION: side A) scene of gynoecium, in the center a woman seated left on a stool, richly attired, with her feet on an elaborate suppedaneo is intent on playing a sumptuous lyre; In front of and behind her two maids, also elegantly dressed with kekryphalos from which comes out a vaporous tuft of hair, stephane radiata, earrings, armillas on the wrists and long embroidered robes offer to the mistress a phiale from which hangs a garland of flowers and an embroidered tenia; one of the two young women has a long tirso and the other a flabello. Side B) a young man seated to the right on his cloak, naked, with a garland in his hair holds in his right hand a phiale from which hangs an embroidered tapeworm and a tyrant in his left hand; in front and behind him two handmaidens, dressed in an analogous way to those of the other side offer him a grape and a tenia and the other a garland and a tirso; in the field three tenias and phytomorphic motives STATE OF CONSERVATION: integral PRODUCTION: Apulian pottery with red figures, Painter of the Underworld. DIMENSIONS: h. cm 35; diam. mouth cm 33 ORIGIN: private collection, Bari CFR.: A. D.Trendall, A. Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia II, Oxford 1982 The lot, according to Italian law, is not exportable / This lot, according to Italian law, can not be exported
