Description
Apulian red-figure kantharos from the workshop of the Baltimore painter. 330 - 320 BC H 23.2 cm, W with handles 20.9 cm. On one side a young woman seated on a rock with a mirror, tympanum and richly filled offering bowl between two thyrsoi. On the other side, also between thyrsoi, an Eros rushing to the left with cista and kalathos. Numerous details executed in white and yellow. As a special feature, this vessel has four appliqués in the form of satyr heads, two at the upper end of the handles and two on the lower outer side of the handles under the leaf-shaped thumb rests. A particularly magnificent example! Pieced together from fragments, small flaws retouched as on one handle. Provenance: Ex private property G. S., Lower Saxony, in family possession since 1966.
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Apulian red-figure kantharos from the workshop of the Baltimore painter. 330 - 320 BC H 23.2 cm, W with handles 20.9 cm. On one side a young woman seated on a rock with a mirror, tympanum and richly filled offering bowl between two thyrsoi. On the other side, also between thyrsoi, an Eros rushing to the left with cista and kalathos. Numerous details executed in white and yellow. As a special feature, this vessel has four appliqués in the form of satyr heads, two at the upper end of the handles and two on the lower outer side of the handles under the leaf-shaped thumb rests. A particularly magnificent example! Pieced together from fragments, small flaws retouched as on one handle. Provenance: Ex private property G. S., Lower Saxony, in family possession since 1966.
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