Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater, 400 BCE - 300 BCE
Terracotta
height 30.7 cm
height 12 1/8 in
height 12 1/8 in
AM.0033
Further images
The obverse with a youthful Dionysos, a maenad and a satyr, the god seated on a klismos to the left, a kylix in his raised right hand, a filleted thyrsos...
The obverse with a youthful Dionysos, a maenad and a satyr, the god seated on a klismos to the left, a kylix in his raised right hand, a filleted thyrsos in his left, a diadem in his hair, the maenad standing in the centre facing right, the bowl of a thymiaterion in her left hand, a satyr to the right facing left, depicted nude but for a fillet in his hair, a tympanum in his lowered left hand, his right arm over his head; the reverse with a fragment of a draped youth; meander and saltire squares encircling the body below the scene, a band of laurel below the rim, palmettes below the handles, vertical lines around the hand joins
Provenance
Christie's, Lot 500, Sale 1446, Antiquities, New York, 10 December 2004THE PROPERTY OF A LOUISIANA COLLECTION
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, 1997 (Kunst der Antike, Katalog 12, no. 205).