AN APULIAN RED FIGURE BELL-KRATER VASE ATTRIBUTED TO THE CIRCLE OF SNUB-NOSE PAINTER OR THE ‘H.A’ PAINTER
Mid 4th Century BC
One side depicting Dionysus and the other three youths, with double palmettes and scrolling volutes under the handles, with a frieze of meander and crossed-squares below, a laurel leaf band below the rim, 43.5cm high
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£400 - £600
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Hammer price:
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£1,900 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Provenance:
Acquired Christie’s, 3 July 1996, Lot 185.
Formerly in the Collection of the Fürsten zu Waldeck, Bergheim.
Lot Notes: Compare A.D Trendall and A.Cambitoglou, The Red Figure Vases of Apulia, I, Oxford, 197,p.371ff and p.331ff; and op.cit., R.V.A., 2nd Supp.,p.79ff.and p.83ff for the Snub-Nose and ‘H.A’ Painters.
Condition Report: Extensive restoration
